vi under SCO Unix

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

In article <Message-Id at dce.ie> em at dce.ie (Eamonn McManus) writes:
>jpr at jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>>This is a mapping which I used daily in SCO Xenix to compose replies to
>>CompuServe messages.
>>
>>map  #1  ?#: [0-9][0-9].* S[0-9][0-9]*/?Wyt N<<Ore^[pmao/post unf^[mbO
>>
>>It fails in SCO Unix.
>
>Regular expressions are severely broken in SCO Unix, at least in 3.2.0.
>Practically any expression using the closure operator (*) can be expected
>not to work.  Your simplest solution is to grab your Xenix vi binary and
>use it instead.

I could have been more specific in my first posting, sorry.

I have SCO UNIX 3.2.2

Running "what vi" shows:

/usr/bin/vi:
	 printf.c:2.2 6/5/79
	 SCO UNIX 3.2V2 OS 09 Jun 90

I did resort to porting the Xenix 'vi' to use instead.

 Jean-Pierre Radley	    NYC Public Unix	jpr at jpr.com	CIS: 72160,1341