[hllug] Re: Is anybody out there?

  • From: C Nichols <cranzn@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:35:43 -0600

When I first began the move from RTE-A (a real-time HP proprietary OS)
to Unix, the HP Systems guru advised me to learn vi as it was available
on almost every Unix variation.  

That was good advice - though I use gedit most of the time now.

cln



On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 18:59 -0600, Stevie wrote:
> This thread reminded me of an issue that I tried to fix about a month
> ago or so, with no luck. There was some type of error in the binary
> repositories for the Unix that I use when I previously tried to
> install 
> Nano. I tried again just awhile ago an got the program Nano installed,
> tested it, worked just fine. It was a version issue with the "pkg_add"
> command calling the correct version, but the server not serving 
> the right one. Glad they got it resolved finally.
> 
> 
> 
> Vi works OK, but requires me to read a lot before I can even use it
> most of the time. Nano I'm used to.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks guys for reminding me that I had unfinished business with a
> Unix text editor.



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