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From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie: life without rio
Date: Wed,  1 Oct 2003 15:44:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85e83d82e479037bccfa881892d377e0@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031001142413.GA6395@lb.tenfour>

> First off I need a text editor to get ndb configured,
> but sam seems to want to use a GUI (errors about $wsys)?
> Anything else I can use (preferably vi-ish but i'm not fussy at the
> moment as long as it's a step up from ed).

until you've got a GUI, your only options are ed or sam -d (which is
similar in style).  plan 9 gains a lot of simplicity by leaving all
the tty emulation stuff out of the kernel and the initial console
code.

it useful to learn how to use ed anyway, for those "command-line-only
moments).

> Also each time I run man I get the whole page thrown
> at the terminal; should I have set a pager or something?
> The manpage for man is sadly too long to fit in my terminal :)

man p

hope this is the right sort of nudge!



  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-01 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-01 14:24 Rasputin
2003-10-01 14:44 ` rog [this message]
2003-10-01 19:27   ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-01 22:32     ` ron minnich
2003-10-01 23:10       ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-01 15:14 ` mirtchov
2003-10-02  0:49 ` okamoto
2003-10-02  2:33   ` okamoto
2003-10-03 13:12     ` Rasputin
2003-10-03 14:31       ` jmk
2003-10-03 19:03         ` Rasputin
2003-10-03 19:20           ` jmk
2003-10-06 11:06             ` Rasputin
2003-10-06 11:11               ` boyd
2003-10-07  0:53               ` okamoto
2003-10-01 14:29 Russ Cox
2003-10-02  7:46 Tiit Lankots
2003-10-02  7:49 ` Stephen Wynne
2003-10-02 16:39   ` splite
2003-10-02 17:24     ` David Lukes
2003-10-02 21:02       ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-02 21:06         ` David Presotto
2003-10-02 21:11           ` boydomatic
2003-10-02 21:22             ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-03  1:18             ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-02 21:20           ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-02 18:13     ` jmk
2003-10-02 18:19       ` ron minnich
2003-10-02 21:13         ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-03  8:44         ` kim kubik
2003-10-03  9:04           ` boyd
2003-10-03 13:38           ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-10-03 13:39             ` david presotto
2003-10-03 13:49               ` david presotto
2003-10-03 16:32                 ` Dan Cross
2003-10-03 16:34                   ` Dan Cross
2003-10-03 16:34                   ` David Presotto
2003-10-03 16:42                   ` ron minnich
2003-10-06  9:01                     ` kim kubik
2003-10-06  9:32                       ` boyd
2003-10-03 17:10                   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-04  8:02                   ` boyd
2003-10-04  8:00                 ` boyd
2003-10-04  7:57               ` boyd
2003-10-02 20:37       ` boyd
2003-10-02 21:11       ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-06  8:08       ` vdharani
2003-10-02  7:52 ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-03 17:36 ` a
2003-10-03 17:47   ` rog
2003-10-04  1:53     ` rob pike, esq.
2003-10-04  8:17       ` boyd
2003-10-04  8:14     ` boyd
2003-10-04  8:06   ` boyd
2003-10-03  9:11 Tiit Lankots
2003-10-04 15:50 Jack Johnson
2003-10-04 15:58 Jack Johnson
2003-10-06  9:02 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-06  9:30   ` boyd
2003-10-06 10:03   ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-06 10:09     ` boyd
2003-10-06 10:24       ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-06 10:43         ` boyd
2003-10-06  9:44 ` Brian Inglis
2003-10-06 10:28 Tiit Lankots
2003-10-06 10:44 ` boyd
2003-10-06 10:30 Tiit Lankots
2003-10-06 10:40 ` Charles Forsyth

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