Losing my work in vi!

[Guy Harris]

> 	1. The name of this newsgroup is comp.bugs.4bsd. 4.3BSD comes
> 	   with ex version 3.7. If Ron is running a BSD system, how can
> 	   he have 3.9, which is the version that comes with System V.3?

No, it's the version that comes with System V.2, but that's neither here nor
there.  If you bring "curses"/"terminfo" up on a BSD system (it has plenty
of #ifdefs for that, although it would require some work - for one thing,
the SIGTSTP code is for 4.1BSD, assumes that signal handlers are reset when
a signal occurs, and will thus go into an infinite loop if you try to
suspend a "curses" program), and spend a little more time on "ex" itself,
you can bring it up on a BSD system as well.  *That's* how he could have 3.9.

However, the point is well taken that bugs in "ex" 3.9 would properly appear
in "comp.bugs.sys5", not "comp.bugs.4bsd", so bugs in "ex" appearing in
"comp.bugs.4bsd" should be assume to apply to one or the other versions of
"ex" 3.7 (yup, the 4.3BSD one is different from the 4.2BSD one, but they
didn't change the version number).