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Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Mon May 22 08:42:56 PDT 2006


> 
> 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 (?)

You don't really need to de-install it.
Just cp /usr/bin/vi /bin/.
Make sure you are happy with the permissions.

It will work.  vi is pretty well self contained.

////jerry

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