kleinj@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Justin Klein) (09/10/89)
Expires: Sender: Reply-To: kleinj@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Justin Klein) Followup-To: Distribution: usa Organization: Oregon State University - CS - Corvallis Oregon Keywords:Hellllllp meeeeeeee! To any and everyone who can give concise information on this matter: I am having an inordinate amount of hassle posting news. If I could find/implement the right editor for my system, then I could get past most fo it For the essentials to the problem: The way I get into my local UNIX is to dail into it. for a teriminal I use Howver, in news posting, it works better if I specify it as simply 'adm3'. from this, it is apparent to me that vi (the only editor that I am familiar with) simply will not do. What I need is an editor that will work as well as posting to my local dailup BBS. I know that there are more than one availible for this UNIX system and I have mailed system support in an effort to get learn access. My basic question to any of you that can answer this it: What editor that is availible on a unix system is the best to use with the adm3...or adm3a? And how can I implement it so that it will always come up for me when I post...at least how can I specify it to the prompt? Thanks in advance...I will name my firstborn after you, maybe. kleinj <Justin the Blue><Kleinj@jacobs.cs.orst.edu>
epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) (09/12/89)
Hoo-boy. Something about trying to teach a pig to sing... In article <12444@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> kleinj@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Justin Klein) writes: > The way I get into my local UNIX is to dail into it. for a teriminal I use >[blank] > What editor that is availible on a unix system is the best to use with the > adm3...or adm3a? ed? I gather that you don't really have an ADM3a (or heaven forbid, a 3). What do you REALLY have? UNIX systems generally understand several hundred terminal types through the termcap or terminfo package. > And how can I implement it so that it will always come up > for me when I post...at least how can I specify it to the prompt? You didn't say which newsreader you have, but you might try setting the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variable. Get local help. Getting strange terminals to work generally requires hands-on experimentation. Please read the articles in news.announce.newusers, and don't type past the right margin--your article was very difficult to read. -=EPS=-