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Installation BVI

The following steps are necessary to get bvi running:

UNIX

The Unix version of bvi needs the curses (ncurses) library for cursor movement.
  1. Download the source package from the Download Page
  2. Unzip the package with the command:
    3.     # gunzip -c bvi-1.3.1.src.tar.gz | tar xvf
  3. Change to the directory bvi-1.3.1 and type 
        # ./configure
    # make
  4. Type `make install' for copying the executable files and manual pages to the final directories.
    By default, `make install' will install the package's files in `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the option `--prefix=PATH'. Use the `--with-ncurses' option to configure to specify an alternate search path for Ncurses outside the normal include/lib search path.

    You will find now four new commands: 

        bvi     The binary editor
    bview   The readonly version of bvi
    bedit   The beginners version of bvi
    bmore   The binary more program
  5. Use `make uninstall' to remove the installed files from your file system.
    You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'.

MSDOS

You have to convert the sourcefiles from the UNIX textformat to the MSDOS textformat first. This can be done e.g. by loading and saving them with the MSDOS standard editor `edit'.

The MSDOS version is using the conio routines of the Borland - C compilers for cursor movement. The doscur.h header file substitutes the curses commands.
Bvi is using the "HUGE" memory model, bmore needs the "TINY" model to be able to convert it to a .COM file.

  1. Download the source package from the Download Page
  2. Unzip the package with the command: 
        gunzip -c bvi-1.3.1.src.tar.gz | tar xvf
  3. Load the tcconfig file (located in the bc subdirectory for Borland - C).
  4. Press F9-Make
The MSDOS version exists for historical reasons and is not really supported anymore.

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Last update: February 12th 2002 by Gerhard Bürgmann