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Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.1 and Samba
From: Deirdre Saoirse <deirdre@deirdre.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:37:48 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Chris Maresca wrote:

> > Another very basic question: what text processor comes with RH 6.1 and
> > how do I access it?
> 
> Try pico [filename] to start with.  If you are using X Window, there are
> several GUI editor.

If you're going to use pico to edit config files, use it the smarter way:

pico -w

(doesn't force line wraps)

Otherwise you're not going to get what you expect as a line wrap in a
config file can be nasty.

There's a lot of editors, but usually vi and pico are installed on most
Linux distros.

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