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From: Grant on 27 Nov 2009 14:54 On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:33:35 +0000 (UTC), Sylvain Robitaille <syl(a)alcor.concordia.ca> wrote: >On 27 Nov 2009 20:11:00 +0100, Helmut Hullen wrote: > >>> ... Slackware's single-user mode requires the root password. >> >> For those problems I have RIP: > >Yeah, and I just use the Slackware installation disk ... It amounts to >the same thing. Yup, friend of mine prefers opensuse, but has separate rescue CDs. I use slackware's installer CD. For dd, fdisk and vi. Grant. -- http://bugsplatter.id.au
From: Lew Pitcher on 27 Nov 2009 17:19 Sylvain Robitaille <syl(a)alcor.concordia.ca> trolled: > lewpitcher(a)lewpitcher.ca, and not Roger Manyard, wrote: > >> ... Remember qedit? Remember the Norton Editor? ... > > no and no. They just weren't memorable. You were in your diapers back then, sweetie. We won't hold it against you for not remembering. Who is Roger Manyard, anyway? And why do you type his name over our autogenerated LewPitcher(a)LewPitcher.ca at the top? We are LewPitcher(a)LewPitcher.ca. In fact, we are the only one on earth. So what is your problem? >> Sorry, lugan, but you are confusing ed with ex. > > No. I typed "ed", not "ex". You weren't there. We were there. You weren't. Obviously, if you can't tell the difference between ex and ed... cordially, as always, LewPitcher(a)LewPitcher.ca -- Official Website -->> http://lewpitcher.ca/ Something to look at: -->> http://www.emusclemag.com/ Lonely in Brampton? -->> http://gaypros.meetup.com/cities/ca/on/brampton/ Peel HIV/AIDS Network -->> http://www.phan.ca/home.html
From: Sylvain Robitaille on 27 Nov 2009 18:14 On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:19:00 +0000, Roger Maynard, in a blatant attempt to misrepresent Lew Pitcher wrote: >>> ... Remember qedit? Remember the Norton Editor? ... > > You were in your diapers back then, sweetie. ... I assure you I wasn't, but if memory serves, you were still in school and referring to yourself in the singular. I certainly remember the existence of these programs, but I don't remember much of anything about them. They weren't memorable. >> No. I typed "ed", not "ex". You weren't there. > > We were there. You weren't. I was the one at the keyboard. Where were you? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl(a)encs.concordia.ca Systems analyst / AITS Concordia University Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Aaron W. Hsu on 27 Nov 2009 18:58 Lew Pitcher <lewpitcher(a)lewpitcher.ca> writes: >Aaron W. Hsu <arcfide(a)local> trolled: >> Lew Pitcher <lewpitcher(a)lewpitcher.ca> writes: >> >>>That is where you should be using ex, not ed. ed edits basic >>>streams editor while ex is a basic text editor. Try typing "vi" >>>from ex and ed to see the difference. >> >> No, I mean, quite intentionally, ed. Ex is a line oriented mode of the >> vi "suite" if you want to call it that, but I meant ed. Ex is mostly >> functionally equivalent at that point, but sometimes, you don't have >> access to Vi/Ex. :-) >Any situation where you would have access to ed and not ex would be >contrived. It's happened to me in real life. It wasn't contrived. It wasn't that bad. Aaron W. Hsu
From: Keith Keller on 27 Nov 2009 19:27
On 2009-11-27, Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote: > Responding to Keith Keller: > >> On 2009-11-27, Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote: [some extra snipping to make the context clearer] >>> You're drifting into >>> a "My fav app" flame-war position. >> >> This is like the black hole calling the kettle black. > > Y'mean you're treating my problems with Vi as if I'm having a go at those > who actually like it? No, sorry. The last sentence is to what I was referring--you seem to think that just because nano is your preferred editor that everyone should include it in their rescue/install media rootdisk. > Not the case. Thats just me reflecting /my/ > experience. Don't take any of this personally. Its just about software, > ok? Of course. So you know it's not personal when half the entire population of usenet recommends you learn vi! --keith -- kkeller-usenet(a)wombat.san-francisco.ca.us (try just my userid to email me) AOLSFAQ=http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt see X- headers for PGP signature information |