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+# @(#)README 8.84 (Berkeley) 8/15/94
+
+This is the README for version 1.32 of nex/nvi, a freely redistributable
+replacement for the Berkeley ex and vi text editors. The compressed or
+gzip'd archive, for this and future versions, can be retrieved by using
+anonymous ftp to ftp.cs.berkeley.edu, from the file ucb/4bsd/nvi.tar.Z,
+or ucb/4bsd/nvi.tar.gz.
+
+If you have any questions about nvi, or problems making it work, please
+contact me by electronic mail at one of the following addresses:
+
+ uunet!bostic
+ bostic@cs.berkeley.edu
+
+Keith Bostic
+
+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
+o Redistribution:
+
+This software is copyrighted by the The Regents of the University of
+California, but may be freely redistributed (or sold, or used to line
+your birdcage) under the following conditions:
+
+/*-
+ * Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
+ * The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+ * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+ * are met:
+ * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+ * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+ * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+ * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+ * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+ * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
+ * must display the following acknowledgement:
+ * This product includes software developed by the University of
+ * California, Berkeley and its contributors.
+ * 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
+ * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
+ * without specific prior written permission.
+ *
+ * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
+ * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+ * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+ * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+ * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+ * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
+ * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+ * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+ * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+ * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+ * SUCH DAMAGE.
+ */
+
+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
+o Credit where it's due:
+
+ This software was originally derived from software contributed
+ to the University of California, Berkeley by Steve Kirkendall,
+ the author of the vi clone elvis. Without his work, this work
+ would have been far more difficult.
+
+ POSIX 1003.2 style regular expression support is courtesy of
+ Henry Spencer, for which I am *very* grateful.
+
+ The curses library was originally done by Ken Arnold. Scrolling
+ and general reworking for 4.4BSD was done by Elan Amir.
+
+o From the original vi acknowledgements, by William Joy and Mark Horton:
+
+ Bruce Englar encouraged the early development of this display
+ editor. Peter Kessler helped bring sanity to version 2's
+ command layout. Bill Joy wrote versions 1 and 2.0 through 2.7,
+ and created the framework that users see in the present editor.
+ Mark Horton added macros and other features and made the editor
+ work on a large number of terminals and Unix systems.
+
+o And...
+ The financial support of UUNET Communications Services is gratefully
+ acknowledged.
+
+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
+o Status:
+
+This software is in beta test, and it's pretty stable. Almost all of
+the historic functionality in ex/vi is there, the only major missing
+pieces are open mode and the lisp option. (Also, the options hardtabs,
+optimize, redraw, and slowopen are recognized, but ignored.)
+
+Nvi is mostly 8-bit clean. This isn't difficult to fix, and was left
+in during initial development to keep things simple. Wide character
+support will be integrated at the same time that it is made fully 8-bit
+clean.
+
+There aren't a lot of new features in nex/nvi, but there are a few things
+you might like. The "Additional Features" section of the reference page
+(USD.doc/vi.ref/vi.ref.txt, USD.doc/vi.ref/vi.ref.ps) has more information.
+
+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
+o Porting information:
+
+The directory "PORT" has directories for specific OS/machine combinations,
+including V7-style Makefiles, for building nex/nvi on different machines.
+See the file PORT/README for detailed information.
+
+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
+o Debugging:
+
+Code fixes are appreciated, of course, but if you can't provide them,
+please email me as much information as you can as to how to reproduce
+the bug, and I'll try to fix it locally. Stack traces of core dumps
+are only rarely helpful -- an example file with a set of keystrokes that
+causes the problem is almost invariably necessary.
+
+Please include the following in the bug report;
+
+ o The version of nvi you're running (use :version to get it).
+ o The row/column dimensions of the screen (80 x 32).
+ o Unless you're confident that they're not part of the problem,
+ your startup files (.exrc, .nexrc) and the environment variable
+ (EXININT, NEXINIT) values. (Cutting and pasting the output
+ of ":set all" is usually sufficient.)
+
+If you're running a memory checker (e.g. Purify) on nvi, you will want
+to recompile everything with "-DPURIFY" in the CFLAGS, first. By
+default, allocated pages are not initialized by the DB code, and they
+will show up as reads of uninitialized memory in the buffer write routines.
+
+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
+o Directory layout:
+
+nvi/USD.doc:
+ Ex/vi documentation, both historic and current.
+
+ edit/ Roff source for "Edit: A tutorial", USD:14 in the
+ 4.3BSD manuals.
+ ex/ Roff source for "Ex Reference Manual -- Version
+ 3.7", USD:16 in the 4.3BSD manuals.
+ vi/ Roff source for "An Introduction to Display
+ Editing with Vi", USD:15 in the 4.3BSD manuals.
+ Includes the "Vi Quick Reference" card.
+ vi.man/ Manual page for nex/nvi; an updated version of
+ the document distributed with 4.4BSD-Lite.
+ vi.ref/ Reference document for nex/nvi; an updated version
+ of the document distributed with 4.4BSD-Lite.
+
+nvi/common:
+ Source files for pieces of code that are shared by all the editors,
+ like searching and logging code or code translating line numbers
+ into requests to the dbopen(3) database code. It also has the
+ interface code for modifying "records" in the underlying database.
+
+nvi/docs:
+ Random nvi documentation:
+
+ README -- Nvi main README file.
+ bugs.current -- Major known bugs in the current nvi.
+ changelog -- Log of changes from version to version.
+ features -- Todo list, suggested features list.
+ internals/
+ autowrite -- Vi autowrite option discussion.
+ gdb.script -- GDB debugging scripts.
+ input -- Vi maps, executable buffers, and input discussion.
+ quoting -- Vi quoting discussion.
+ structures -- Out-of-date nvi internal structure description.
+ tutorial/ -- Historic vi tutorial(s), of unknown quality.
+
+nvi/ex:
+ The ex source code. Because vi has the colon command, lots of
+ this code is used by vi. Generally, if functionality is shared
+ by both ex and vi, it's in nvi/ex. If it's vi only, it's in
+ nvi/vi. Files are generally named by the command(s) they support,
+ but occasionally with a name that describes their functionality.
+
+nvi/install:
+ Things to install on the local system.
+
+ recover.script -- Vi recovery script.
+
+nvi/PORT:
+ Porting directories, one per OS/architecture combination. See
+ nvi/PORT/README for porting information.
+
+ curses/ -- 4.4BSD curses implementation
+ db/ -- 4.4BSD DB routines.
+ regex/ -- Henry Spencer's POSIX.2 RE support.
+
+nvi/sex:
+ The screen support for the ex editor.
+
+nvi/svi:
+ The screen support for a curses based vi editor.
+
+nvi/vi:
+ The vi source code.
+
+nvi/xaw:
+ Place reserved for an X11 (Athena Widget) screen.
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