[m-rev.] Added vim directory to distribution

[Ralph Becket]

Peter Moulder, Wednesday, 13 March 2002:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:02:48PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> 
> > $(...) is a bash-ism.
> 
> On a factual note, $(...) is part of the Single Unix Specification (and
> presumably also POSIX) for the shell, not just a bashism.  It's present
> in the HP-UX Bourne shell and ash, but not in the SunOS 5.8 /bin/sh that
> I tried.
> 
> (This doesn't change the recommendation to change to `...` of course.)

I've made the change as requested.

Solaris/SunOS is unbelievably backward when it comes to providing
standards conformant shell programs.  I've had problems with shells, sed
and awk on that platform in the past.

- Ralph
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