pico

pico

[Jed Barton]

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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

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Re: pico

[Adam Myrow]

Pico is part of the pine package.  Pine is an email reader and pico stands
for Pine Composer.  It sounds like Pine didn't get installed.  No
surprise.  I found that many packages in Redhat are skipped unless you
either install everything which, as you found out, takes up a lot of
space, or go to the trouble of selecting packages one by one.  As for
other editors, you are guaranteed to have vi on the system, but it can be
a frustrating editor for a new user.  Emacs may also have been installed.
It's quite powerful, but also somewhat cryptic.  I don't know if Redhat
has it or not, but there is an editor called joe which some people like.
In other words, there is a lot of choice, but it depends on what is
installed.  You can always go back and install packages later on, so all
is not lost.

Re: pico

[jude dashiell]

ed is probably installed and not all that difficult.

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Re: nano (was pico)

[Janina Sajka]

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

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Re: nano (was pico)

[Alex Snow]

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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Re: pico

[Thomas D. Ward]

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It
's probably because the pine email client wasn't installed. You'll have to use rpm to install pine on your system.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jed Barton 
  To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
  Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 6:16 PM
  Subject: pico


  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

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Re: nano (was pico)

[Andrew Hodgson]

Janina Sajka in <20030622231412.GF1166@rednote.net>:

>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:

Thanks for the tip, I now am going to use Nano for editing.  I don't
like Pine in any case, but do use Pico on occasions where nothing else
is available.

Andrew.
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Email: Andrew@hodgsonfamily.org

Re: nano (was pico)

[Janina Sajka]

By the way, I pulled this nano rpm off a current Red Hat rawhide mirror.
It just seemed easier to put directions to my site than a deep stack of
directories at a major mirror site.

Andrew Hodgson writes:
> From: Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org>
> 
> Janina Sajka in <20030622231412.GF1166@rednote.net>:
> 
> >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:
> 
> Thanks for the tip, I now am going to use Nano for editing.  I don't
> like Pine in any case, but do use Pico on occasions where nothing else
> is available.
> 
> Andrew.
> -- 
> Andrew Hodgson, Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
> Email: Andrew@hodgsonfamily.org
> 
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				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Re: nano (was pico)

[Andrew Hodgson]

Janina Sajka in <20030623150403.GG7266@rednote.net>:

>By the way, I pulled this nano rpm off a current Red Hat rawhide mirror.

Which is where I obtained the RPM from as I have a mirror closer to me
than your server.

Andrew.
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Email: Andrew@hodgsonfamily.org

Re: nano (was pico)

[Janina Sajka]

Yeah, Andrew. I wasn't being very clear.

I didn't mean you so much as the new Linux user we were helping.


Andrew Hodgson writes:
> From: Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org>
> 
> Janina Sajka in <20030623150403.GG7266@rednote.net>:
> 
> >By the way, I pulled this nano rpm off a current Red Hat rawhide mirror.
> 
> Which is where I obtained the RPM from as I have a mirror closer to me
> than your server.
> 
> Andrew.
> -- 
> Andrew Hodgson, Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
> Email: Andrew@hodgsonfamily.org
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175