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From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] editor, man/less, dns setup, screen setup
Date: Wed,  9 Aug 2006 14:08:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060809120813.GD5077@shodan.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44D9CF28.5080105@enerla.net>

* bituman (bituman@enerla.net) wrote:
> Ahoi all.. well my computer had seen plan9 a few times before : )
> Now i just got a new laptop. I could finally install plan9 after a few
> smaller probs.
> The machine is a gericom laptop.. i know... with a geforce GO video
> card, plus a TFT capable of 1024x768x32bit
> prob#1: i cant seem to make GUI work. its that simple.
> prob#2: prob#1 wouldnt be a big problem, i love console : ), but there's
> no more and less commands, and i cant scroll console. how can this be
> done? can't seem to find in the wiki
> prob#3: is there a simple text editor like nano or vi available for
> plan9? im sure i will love plan9's ed but becouse of prob#2 i cant even
> really read its man page...
> and i am not in the mood to execute man ed | sed 10q, then man ed | sed
> 20q and so on... just to read it
> and i do need the editor, becouse i have set 195.56.77.141 as my default
> domain name server.
> thanks for your help in advance guys : )

Hello,

I think you need p(1).

Oh, and its manpage fits on a screenful.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-09 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-04  9:37 [9fans] vmware? Anssi Porttikivi
2006-08-04  9:47 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-08-04 15:15   ` Richard Bilson
2006-08-04 15:44     ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-07 22:14       ` Richard Bilson
2006-08-07 23:50         ` Federico Benavento
2006-08-04 19:03     ` Gorka guardiola
2006-08-09 10:00       ` [9fans] Environment variable arisawa
2006-08-09 11:03         ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 11:16           ` arisawa
2006-08-09 11:27             ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 11:36               ` arisawa
2006-08-09 11:39               ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 12:04                 ` arisawa
2006-08-09 12:26                   ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 12:39                     ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 12:58                       ` arisawa
2006-08-09 13:22                         ` arisawa
2006-08-09 13:30                         ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-10  2:15                         ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-09 12:03               ` [9fans] editor, man/less, dns setup, screen setup bituman
2006-08-09 12:08                 ` Martin Neubauer [this message]
2006-08-09 12:08                 ` Robert Raschke
2006-08-19  0:45                   ` Rodolfo (kix)
2006-08-10  2:09         ` [9fans] Environment variable erik quanstrom

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