MESS

Daniel Bye freebsd-questions at slightlystrange.org
Mon May 22 09:55:57 PDT 2006


On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:16:03AM -0700, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> At Mon, 22 May 2006 it looks like Jerry McAllister composed:
> 
> > Yup.   It is in /usr/bin
> > I guess, I am so used to putting a copy of vi in /bin shortly after
> > installing a new system that I assume it is always there.
> > 
> 
> Can we actually 'de-install' then 're-install' vi(m) from PORTS with
> it statically compiled?
> 
> Then we can move it to /bin (?)

If you have /rescue on your system, you have a static vi already.  Not
vim, admittedly, but in a fix I would think you could muddle through with
it.

Dan

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