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From: "Andrew Lynch" <andrew@knuut.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Advances in software technology
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:51:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1040828125107.ZM952@Sindy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Joel Salomon" <salomo3@cooper.edu> "Re: [9fans] Advances in software technology" (Aug 27,  6:02pm)

On Aug 27,  6:02pm, Joel Salomon wrote:
> Jason Gurtz said:
> > # ls -l `which vim`
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1706824 Nov 21  2001 /usr/bin/vim*
> >                                    ^^^^^^^
> but look at the upside:
> $ ls -l `which vi`
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 chesky   Users          18 May 17 14:58 /usr/bin/vi ->
> vim.exe

That still leaves room for improvement...

% ls -l `which vi`
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys            2 Sep 26  1999 /usr/bin/vi -> ex*

Andrew.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-28 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-27  9:36 Nigel Roles
2004-08-27 10:36 ` dvd
2004-09-01  8:58   ` Aharon Robbins
2004-08-27 10:58 ` geoff
2004-08-27 13:27   ` Nigel Roles
2004-08-27 14:36     ` Jason Gurtz
2004-08-27 22:02       ` Joel Salomon
     [not found]         ` <salomo3@cooper.edu>
2004-08-28 10:51           ` Andrew Lynch [this message]
2004-08-27 16:04 ` andrey mirtchovski

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