Re: [cobalt-users] NEWBIE: how to edit a system file (httpd.conf and srm.conf) on a RAQ3 system?

[Kingsly John <kingslyj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, antonio_slogan wrote:

 |But I don't know a way to do this. Is there an easy to use text
 |editor? what is the command line? and what are the main commands to
 |open/save a file? I have a good MS-DOS knowledge.

I would advice you to learn to use vi because that's the only editor that
you can be sure to find on any *nix machine. And it's not all that complex
if all you want to do is open a file edit it and save it

There are lots of nice tutorials available on the net.

If you were used to WordStar on MS-DOS you can try "joe" it has the exact
same key bindings.

The easiest editor to use would probably be "pico" all the useful commands
can be found in the bottom two lines of the screen at any given time.
(*IMP* But it doesn't handle long lines very well.. if a line exceeds 80
characters it breaks it into two lines and that can totally fsck up your
configuration file.)

One word of advice ... always make a copy of the file that you are going
to edit..so even if you do something wrong... you can always restore your
system to the last working state.

Kingsly