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From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: nano (was pico)
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:45:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000901c33920$aeb99340$6501a8c0@win2k> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030622231412.GF1166@rednote.net>

Also a note about nano: it works much better then pico cursoring-wise.  I
find probelems editing files with pico bc of issues with cursoring that
don't seem to effect nano as bad. thus making it my editor of choise.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: nano (was pico)


> Sinceyou couldn't install everything, some things weren't installed. It
> stands to reason.
>
> As it happens, Pine and Pico are being phased out by Red Hat because of
> their nonfree license. Instead, get nano. It's a pico look alike. You
> can download from my anonymous ftp server:
>
> ftp.rednote.net
>
> Once there:
>
> cd goodies/textapps
>
> and then issue:
>
> get nano-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm
>
> Or, better still, use a program you probably have:
>
> ncftp ftp.rednote.net
>
> Then:
>
> cd goodies/textapps
>
> And:
>
> get nano
>
> and press the tab followed by enter.
>
> Once you've downloaded it, issue:
>
> rpm -iv nano
>
> and press tab followed by enter.
>
>
> Jed Barton writes:
> > From: "Jed Barton" <jed@jedbarton.com>
> >
> >    Hey guys.
> >    Does pico come in linux?
> >    For some reason, i tried to access it, and it said it wasn't found.
> >    i typed in pico /etc/file name.  no go.  Any ideas?
> >
> >    Thanks,
> >    Jed
>
> --
>
> Janina Sajka, Director
> Technology Research and Development
> Governmental Relations Group
> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
> Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
>
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 pico Jed Barton
 ` pico Adam Myrow
   ` pico jude dashiell
 ` nano (was pico) Janina Sajka
   ` Alex Snow [this message]
   ` Andrew Hodgson
     ` Janina Sajka
       ` Andrew Hodgson
         ` Janina Sajka
 ` pico Thomas D. Ward

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