From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wkt@minnie.tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:26:15 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Russian Ancient UNIX stuff in the Archive In-Reply-To: <0303171918.AA01260@ivan.Harhan.ORG> References: <0303171918.AA01260@ivan.Harhan.ORG> Message-ID: <20030318002615.GA4329@minnie.tuhs.org> On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:18:15AM -0800, Michael Sokolov wrote: > I am trying to russify my flagship UNIX (4.3BSD-Quasijarus) and I'm adding/ > fixing 8-bit support in various parts of the system, and I got stuck on ex/vi. > The sucker just won't handle 8-bit chars. Since my job is to maintain Ancient > UNIX (my flavor thereof) rather than replace it, replacing the original ex/vi > with one of the modern reimplementations is not an option. I need to massage > 8-bit support into the existing original Berkeley ex/vi with as few changes as > possible. > > A friend of mine told me that Back in The Days the first UNIX users in the then > USSR were running patched (russified) 2.xBSD on Soviet PDP-11s and had KOI-8 > for Russian. Since the flagship editor on BSD is ex/vi, this makes me > think that those early Russian users used it and thus their patches > accomplished just what I need. And so I'm looking for those patches. TIA for > any help, > MS I have a thing called Demos in a hidden section of the archive, which is a modified 7th Edition (plus other things?) from Russia. I've hidden it as the legal status is unclear :-) I'm happy to hand it out to individual requestors, though. However, I can't find a vi(1) in there: /usr/Hidden_PUPS/Miscfiles/Russian: du -a | grep vi 1 ./cmd/TUVWXYZ/vipw.sh,v.gz 1 ./cmd/comint/Environment/README.gz 2 ./cmd/comint/Environment/termcap.gz 2 ./cmd/comint/Environment/tuner.gz 3 ./cmd/comint/Environment/minihelp.DEMOS.gz 9 ./cmd/comint/Environment 1 ./cmd/uucp/L-devices.gz 11 ./sys/dev/RCS/video.c,v.gz 6 ./sys/dev/RCS/vikey.c,v.gz 7 ./sys/dev/video.c.gz 1 ./sys/include/video.h.gz 3 ./sys/stand/libsa/RCS/video.c,v.gz 2 ./sys/stand/libsa/video.c.gz and a grep on `ex' gives nothing either. Warren