On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Webmaster Jim wrote:

> I put an MS-DOS partition on the drive so that I could download
> the tarfiles using MS-Kermit.  I can mount_msdos floppy drives,
> but not the DOS hard drive partition.  Disklabel -e died with
> "/usr/bin/vi not found"...

ed(1) works fine for me.  Yes, I'm implying that you should learn it. :-)

> Vi, cpio and some other basic utilities
> would be great to have handy.

tar is available, at least for some ports, but pax would be better, as it
can handle "old" tar, ustar, and posix cpio archives, among others. 

--scott