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From: mosemann@unlinfo.unl.edu (Russell Mosemann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Is there a nice menuing system available?
Date: 11 Nov 1992 02:39:23 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
Reply-To: mosemann@unl.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu
Summary: Is there a nice menuing system available?
Keywords: menu

   Is there a nice (customizeable, of course) menuing system available
that I could put new users into?  I've been playing around with
simple_menu, and I was wondering if there were any others I haven't seen.
--
Russell
mosemann@unl.edu
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:13:59 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

haley@husc11.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes:

>DOS will survive because there is a massive user base...

And if that user base (or a large part) is going to switch to NT? DOS is no
competition to UNIX, but NT definetly is!
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:38:18 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:

>>SHORT? That's hardly the word, miniscule is even too much... :-)
>>[list with *9* apps deleted]
>Have you read any UNIX-related magazine ? You will be amazed by the number
>of ready to use applications. I've seen a list of hundred applications
>available under UNIX.

I've seen those lists. But I have two questions:

  - for which UNIX?
  - how much is the difference between a DOS/Windows app and a comparable
    UNIX app? (Ok, let the flames come in! :)))

>>Wow! ODT uses Motif, NeXT uses NeXTStep, A/UX uses finder and SVR4.2 uses
>>OPEN LOOK, I guess. That makes four different UNIXes with four different
>>user interfaces. With NT or OS/2 you only need to learn only *1* user
>>interface.

>Well, where can I find NT ? Can I buy it now ?

Yep you can. Pull out a few hundred bucks and you can have it now. Besides,
the user interface won't be (much) different from Windows 3.x so for learning
the user interface...

>If you want 1 user interface just pick one of the choices.
>What's so difficult about that ?

Because the application programmer made his choice, which, alas, is probably
not my choice. Have you ever worked with X? If I for instance don't like the
Motif window manager and I switch to the OPEN LOOK window manager. That makes
that makes several things look different on the screen. But everything the
application displays remains exactly the same. In fact, the only things to
change would be the background, the system menus and the window borders. Sure
choice has it's advantages, but it sure also has it's disadvantages.

Greetings,
Peter Busser

Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:52:30 GMT

peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:

>rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:

>>>SHORT? That's hardly the word, miniscule is even too much... :-)
>>>[list with *9* apps deleted]
>>Have you read any UNIX-related magazine ? You will be amazed by the number
>>of ready to use applications. I've seen a list of hundred applications
>>available under UNIX.

>I've seen those lists. 

Have you seen this one :

Commercial UNIX Applications :
Aster*x
Autocad
AutoPLAN
Blast
Corel Draw
Crisp (text editor)
dBase IV
DECwrite
eXclaim (spreadsheet for XWindows)
FrameMaker
Interleaf
Island Draw, Write, Paint
HyperHelp (on-line UNIX help)
iXVIEW/SQL
LabView
Looking Glass
Lotus 1-2-3
Lotus cc:Mail
Mathcad
Mathematica
NetMetrix (network manager)
Norton Util Sys V Unix
Oracle
Q-Calc
SAS
Simcity (games)
SoftComm
SoftPC
SpeedEdit (text editor)
Spyglass Transform
SunPC
SunVision
SPSS
Sybase
Synchronize (calender/schedule)
VSI*FAX
Wingz
WordPerfect
WriteNow
xtree for UNIX)
ZMail
...etc.

and zillions of free/commercial xwindows/character based UNIX 
applications/utilities ...(like elm, pico, tgif, xarchie, xfig, 
xftp, xroach, xspread, xv,...)

>But I have two questions:
>  - for which UNIX?

Different versions, just ask the company. (You like to phone them eh :-)

>  - how much is the difference between a DOS/Windows app and a comparable
>    UNIX app? (Ok, let the flames come in! :)))

I am not sure what you mean by that ?
Most of the commerical applications usually have the same look and feel
over different platforms. I mean Corel Draw under Windows has the same
look and feel with the UNIX version.

...
>Because the application programmer made his choice, which, alas, is probably
>not my choice. Have you ever worked with X? 

Yes, I am using OpenWindows or X11R5 most of the time.

>If I for instance don't like the
>Motif window manager and I switch to the OPEN LOOK window manager. That makes
>that makes several things look different on the screen. But everything the
>application displays remains exactly the same. 

That's what window manager supposed to do. (Like the name says 
"window manager"). The application should be the same.
(Actually if I understand it correctly, if the aplication is based on 
tcl you supposed to be able to taylor the apps with tcl's "send" command).

>Sure choice has it's advantages, but it sure also has it's disadvantages.

At least you are not stuck.

-- budi
-- 
Budi Rahardjo <Budi_Rahardjo@UManitoba.Ca>
Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: dlparker@dlpinc00.rn.com (David L. Parker)
Subject: Re: grep
Organization: Automated Data Management Services
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 11:38:39 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.144322.11444@ericsson.se> etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon) writes:
>In article <6370@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>, 
>peter@essex.ac.uk writes:
>|> A quick question I was asked this morning. "Why is grep so called?"
>
>It comes from an ed command:
>
>g/re/p
>
>i.e. globally search for a regular expression and print those lines
>that match.
>

Actually it's Global Regular Expression Parser.
-- 
Dave Parker
Automated Data Management Services, Pleasant Hill, MO 64080-1331
(816) 987-5167/5218 voice/fax          -          dlpinc00!dlparker
From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: simple makefile question
Date: 5 Nov 92 08:06:24 GMT
Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB

In article <EJH.92Nov4112711@khonshu.colorado.edu>, 
Edward J. Hartnett writes:
|> 
|> I've been using makefiles for years, but never really learned too much
|> about them, just copied existing ones and modified them somehow to
|> work. But recently I decided to take the plunge, and, of course, got
|> into trouble.
|> 
|> I had a makefile that worked fine for a program called atob.f, which
|> was alone in it's own directory. I put another program in that
|> directory (rdhdr.f) which has no code in common with the first (except
|> a shared library), but is functionally related to it. I wanted to
|> update the makefile such that when it was invoked it would recompile
|> one or both programs as needed. Here's what I ended up with:
|> 
|> OBJ = atob.o
|> FFLAGS = -e -C
|> F77 = f77
|> LIB = /home/khonshu/ejh/subs/ejhsubs.a
|> LIB2 = /home/khonshu/ejh/cond_samp/subs/cond_samp.a
|> 
|> 
|> atob: $(OBJ)
|> 	$(F77) $(FFLAGS) -o atob $(OBJ) $(LIB) $(LIB2)
|> 
|> rdhdr: rdhdr.o
|> 	f77 $(FFLAGS) -o rdhdr rdhdr.o $(LIB2)
|> 
|> 
|> It seemed to me this would do the trick. At this point rdhdr needed to
|> be recompiled, but atob.f was unchanged. I invoked make and got a
|> message that atob was up to date (which was correct), and then it
|> exited. It never even attempted rdhdr! So I switched the lines thusly:
|> 
|> rdhdr: rdhdr.o
|> 	f77 $(FFLAGS) -o rdhdr rdhdr.o $(LIB2)
|> 
|> atob: $(OBJ)
|> 	$(F77) $(FFLAGS) -o atob $(OBJ) $(LIB) $(LIB2)
|> 
|> And then it worked for rdhdr, but never gave me a message about atob.
|> I thought that all dependancies are evaluated, but it seems to do only
|> the first! Any help out there?

From the man page for make:

     If no target is specified on the command line, make uses the
     first target defined in makefile.

What you need is an entry like:

all : atob rdhdr

as the first target.
-- 

Michael Salmon

#include	<standard.disclaimer>
#include	<witty.saying>
#include	<fancy.pseudo.graphics>

Ericsson Telecom AB
Stockholm
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: root@trebor.uucp (Bob Stockler)
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Organization: Bob Stockler
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 21:59:19 GMT

bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:

>In <1382@netxcom.netx.com> jwc@netx.com (Jeffrey W. Comer) writes:

>:And hey! Don't knock DOS! It may be a wimpy little thing in the corner, but
>:it got the micro revolution started, and I wager alot of us are employed 
>:today thanks to this boon. DOS has its problems too, and if *I* had any say
>:in its design, it would look a lot better, but remember DOS was originally
>:designed to fit onto and operate from a SINGLE 360K floppy! Which versions 
>:of UNIX can make that claim?

>But then so could TRS-DOS, and it had on-line help!

In an article by Frank Dudra IV (one of the team responsible for the port
of MicroSoft Xenix via SCO to the Tandy Systems) somewhere, sometime, (I
think) I read that Tandy had a floppy-disk-only version (unpublished, not
marketed) that would run some of their applications.

I also recall that Bob Snapp put together a floppy-disk-only version of the
Tandy Xenix op/sys + Scripsit for his daughter to use for word processing
at school.  Worked very nicely.

Neither did it from a single floppy, but were never-the-less pretty compact
versions of *NIX that could accomplish useful work (and didn't have their
slashes backwards).
From: jd4q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joe Eddy Demers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UUENCODE help!
Date: 12 Nov 92 12:39:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.gf0hoqi00iUyE6umUp
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Hi...

To get uuencode to work right, do the following:

Say you want to uuencode the binary file blah.mid into the text file blah.uu:
    At the unix prompt, type:
        uuencode blah.mid blah.mid > blau.uu

I know that sounds weird, but it works.  I'm not sure why you have to
put the source filename as both the desired file AND the remote file,
but that's the only way I've been able to get it to work, and it works
just fine that way.


                                            -Jeff Kunins 
                                             jk75@andrew
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 11:43:10 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:

>Get any one of them and you've got it.  Linux, 386BSD, and SCO have
>GUI interfaces.  Linux, 386BSD, and SCO run in under 8MB -- well under
>it, in fact.

SCO is much, much more expensive than $300. ODT swaps like h*ll with 6M RAM so
8M is rather small too (using a normal 640x480x16 VGA card!).

>>ONE unix that runs
>>in 8MB installable with X from floppy, from Egghead.

>Linux and 386BSD are free.  How can you beat that, for God's sake?

No support, no handholding.

>Who was it who determined that "free" is among the three words most
>likely to make Americans sit up and take notice?

Free in the sense of the GNU Copyleft means freedom, not gratis per se.

>>Hello?  Do you know the two most popular operating systems today?
>>Windows 3.1 and DOS.
>That's one and a half operating systems.  Or .75, depending on how you
>look at it.

But nevertheless they sold several milion copies.
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:33:54 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:

>If you don't believe me, feel free to design an alternative.  I would
>be more than happy to be put out of a job by a system with Unix muscle
>which doesn't make users scream in their sleep.

What about NeXT?

>have to offer, it is their own fault that they chose not to learn.  I
>bet most of them aren't missing much, because the average user here
>just plain doesn't NEED it.

The point is *WE* NEED it and unless there is a large user base, there isn't
a reason for UNIX in the future and we lose our nice playing (uh, *WORKING*
of course :) environment. The point is that the ugly details (talking from
user viewpoint) need to be hidden. Just like the electronics in a video
recorder. Users don't need to know how a transistor works, they don't need to
know how 'ls -l' works. If I insert a tape in the video, I want it to work. If
users put in a floppy disk, they want it to work.

Ever heard about going backward by going forward? London had gas lights in the
streets many years before Amsterdam. But at the time Amsterdam got street
lights, it was electrical light and London still had gas lights. So they had
an advantage which became a disadvantage in the future. The same happens to
UNIX, it has several advantages over other systems like OS/2 and NT but if it
isn't at least following the other systems, it will become a backward system.
The big difference between OS/2, NT and UNIX, besides some techical details,
is that OS/2 and NT are aimed at users and UNIX is still aimed at knowledgable
people (hackers, gurus, (computer) scientists, etc.).

If UNIX isn't going to battle OS/2 and NT in the user market, then it will lose
because the user market is the largest market. And if UNIX is really that
flexible, then it shouldn't be difficult to make it both a user's machine and
a hacker's machine. Just hide the 'ugly' details but don't throw them away.

>>With the advance of NT and
>>other new OS's, traditional Unix customers will say goodbye to their
>>old-time friend.  They still love Unix, but in their mind, the new OS's are
>>better Unix'es than Unix.

>I don't think you have a clue what you're talking about.

I think you should sit down, relax and _think_ about the future. If you want
an NT and/or OS/2 future, then don't do anything, just keep up the arrogance
towards Joe and Jane User.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
Subject: Re: wanted shell script for .plan
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:52:49 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.115748.8694@walter.cray.com> mikeb@cad5.cray.com (Mike J. Buchmann) writes:
>
>I have seen this question posted before, but have yet to see an answer to it!
>If you know what the answer is Steve, why don't you share it with us!  This
>newsgroup, as I undrstand it, is for asking questions, if you care not to read
>questions, I suggust you leave and read some other newsgroup.
>
   You, my friend, stand corrected. not only did I post the source, but I
followed up with several articles explaining the intricacies and required
steps to this task. I will not go through that again, and I do not have the
time to mail out source individually. As a result of beginning that thread,
I received well in excess of 100 pieces of mail. Search through old archives
for the source, but I do not have the time to repost. ALso, I do not have
the source...

steve
-- 
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From: nseth@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Mail - signature files.
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:16:10 EST
Organization:  Wright State University 

Is there a way that you can have your signature file automatically appended
to all your mail messages.


Thanks
Nitin Seth
nseth@cs.wright.edu

Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 10:15:33 GMT

In article <1992Nov06.071731.947@Celestial.COM> bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>In <1382@netxcom.netx.com> jwc@netx.com (Jeffrey W. Comer) writes:
>
>:And hey! Don't knock DOS! It may be a wimpy little thing in the corner, but
>:it got the micro revolution started, and I wager alot of us are employed 
>:today thanks to this boon. DOS has its problems too, and if *I* had any say
>:in its design, it would look a lot better, but remember DOS was originally
>:designed to fit onto and operate from a SINGLE 360K floppy! Which versions 
>:of UNIX can make that claim?
>
>But then so could TRS-DOS, and it had on-line help!
>

Even better : TRSDOS could run off of one 80K (As in single sided,
single density 5.25") floppy.

-- 
Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows, 
IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but 
marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
From: mark@coombs.anu.edu.au (Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Does anyone have any good insulting acronyms for VMS?
Date: 7 Nov 92 06:49:22 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2
Organisation: Wassat?!

haley@husc11.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes:

>Verifiablely Maniacal System
>Viciously Mangled System
>Vogon Made System
>Vacuous; moreover, stupid.
>Vaxes mostly Suck.

Said with a european accent:
Ve Make Shit

Vulgar Madman Society
Virgin Mind Screwer
Valium Mandatory System
Viscuous Menstral Slop
Violent Miscarriage Starter
Viable Monday Symbol
Very Moronic Setup

I could go on but I have an account on one I want to keep.. (for a telnet bridge :)

Mark
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov (Jethro H. Greene)
Subject: Please help me with finger.
Followup-To: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov
Originator: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov
Organization: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 03:29:50 GMT

Hi.

I have two questions about finger which don't appear to be in the man-pages.

	1.  Is there a way to use "finger -s" outside of your own site?  For 
	    example, every time I use an "@"-clause, it ignores my "-s"
	    argument.

	2.  When fingering multiple people at an external host, is there a 
	    way to only open the connection once?  For example, if i wanted
	    to "finger dan@white.house bush@white.house millie@white.house",
	    it (at least my computer) will establish the White House connection
	    three times.

Any help that you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

--------------------------- |\_/| --------------------------------------------
| Jethro H. Greene (Jed) | \`0.0'/ | Massively Parallel Comp. Research Lab., |
| jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov  | =(_-_)= | Sandia National. Lab., Albuquerque, NM  |
---------------------------   U   --------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: net.views - mainframe programmers in an open systems world
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 03:22:44 GMT

In article <1992Nov03.145701.22033@utoday.com> wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner) writes:
>            Is it possible to put the skills of mainframe programmers
>            to use in open environments? If so, how?

That seems like a pretty pointless question. Here's another one: "Is it
possible to put the skills of mainstream journalists to use in open
environments? If so, how?

As an aside, I'd like to add that the phrase "Open Systems" makes me think
of sucking chest wounds. Call a spade a spade, or even a goddamn shovel. The
important part is common interfaces, which pretty much means TCP/IP and the
subset common base UNIX API.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   "Meglelted mr ma a farkasodat ?"
  'U`    "Zure otsoa besarkatu al duzu gaur?"
Das kann nicht mein Zimmer sein, denn ich atme kein Ammoniak.
From: limes@ouroborous.eng.sun.com (Greg Limes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
Date: 6 Nov 92 01:00:30 GMT
	<1cn5jnINN823@alnitak.usc.edu> <15329@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
NNTP-Posting-Host: ouroborous
In-reply-to: guy@Auspex.COM's message of 4 Nov 92 22:14:00 GMT

In article <15329@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
|   >If I buy a system from
|   >Microsoft or Apple I can't have anything on the command-line.
|
|   Microsoft (presumably you aren't counting DOS as "a system from
|       Microsoft"):
|
|	   So are you saying that no flavor of Windows has a tool that pops
|	   up a command-line window?


Microsoft Windows 3.0 and 3.1 have a way to pop into a COMMAND.COM, which
initially takes over the entire screen (ick) but which can then be turned
back into a window or iconified.

<I would not normally defend Microsoft, but truth is truth.>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: mitch@cirrus.com (Mitch Wright)
Subject: YABL
Followup-To: poster
Summary: A new release of YABL
Keywords: yabl, unix, c, books
Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:23:15 GMT

Greetings!  I have finally pushed out an updated version of YABL.  It's been
a couple months and a few new and exciting books have been published.  Here  
is the necessary information for those that are not familiar with yabl. 
 
TITLE: *** YABL *** 
AUTHOR: Mitch Wright 
AUTHOR: Fellow USENET Readers... 
DATE: Fri Nov  6 00:21:21 PST 1992 
COMMENTS 
   For complaints, kudos, suggestions, corrections, additions, donations, ... 
   drop me an E-mail note -- mitch@yahoo.cirrus.com 
 
   The latest version of this list can be obtained via anonymous ftp from 
 
        ftp.rahul.net   pub/mitch/YABL/yabl 
    

Regards,

   ~mitch

Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: nahabed@ntmtv.UUCP (Roupen Nahabedian)
Subject: ESIX feedback
Originator: nahabed@nmtvs296
Keywords: ESIX
Reply-To: nahabed@ntmtv.UUCP (Roupen Nahabedian)
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:41:14 GMT

I would like to hear from those who've used ESIX's (4.0.4) run-time 
system and development kit. How is it (pluses, minuses)? Is it 
worthwhile? ...

Thanks,
Roupen N.
--- 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:25:28 GMT

Why is it, in VI if I try to save a file without a name it doesn't prompt
me for a name?  Instead it kicks me back to vi.  Or if I try to quit without
saving.  Why doesn't it ask me "Save y/n."  There is no reason VI couldn't
have an "expert" mode that got rid of messages for those that don't want
them.

Why is it, in VI that there is no way (I know of) to get help, or exit,
without knowing the exit key?  What doesn't "h" in command mode present
ANY kind of help?

Why is it, in RN that when I hit 'h' to ask about how to find a command,
it doesn't give me a menu "message read commands","post commands" "misc
commands."  Instead it makes me read two pages of (mostly useless) commands.

Why don't Unix "tools" have a convention about help and exit keys AT THE
VERY LEAST.  

Where am I supposd to get help about VI?  The man pages tell me nothing
except how to load it.

Why do I have 12 function keys on my keyboard that seem to do absolutely
nothing?

Why doesn't VI use the jkl; keys for cursor movement, since your fingers
are already on them.  Or why not use keys somewhere far from them.  A
person can easily get confused.

Why doesn't help do anything in SH (and others).

Why doesn't help do anything in VI?

Why does VI default to beeping at you when you try to type as opposed to
editing?

Why is it that if I want to WordProcess in VI I have to remember to hit return at the end of the line otherwise bizarre things happen.  Why not just wrap, beep, or slide over (i.e. let the line go long). 

Is there a wordwrap mode in VI?  And if so, why doesn't it kick in when I
use VI from RN?

Inquiring minds want to know.