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  <pre wrap="">I am after infomation on how to run the edit program  Vim  so I can edit the
interfaces file  -  Sylpheed is the editor I would have used but it was not
installed.
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"vim filename" or "vim /path/filename"<br>
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Of course in this case:<br>
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:/home# cd /etc/network<br>
:/etc/interfaces# vim interfaces<br>
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Hope that is all you needed.<br>
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