[plug] re: editing

Bevan Broun bevanb at ee.uwa.edu.au
Thu Jul 22 09:11:46 WST 1999


on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:03:57AM +0800, Peter Caffin <pc at it.net.au> wrote:
> Being forced to use the antiquated mess that is SCO in my last job
> reinforced the need to keep my vi skills intact for future crappy old
> UNIXes I may yet encounter.

It may be an crappy old unix that doesnt have other editors installed OR
it may be your machine is not booting and you only have your root
partition OR it may be some program chucks you into vi to edit a file
'cause vi is the default. 

BB
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