[rescue] Octane won't talk to the outside world...

Jonathan Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Sat Nov 20 01:53:36 CST 2010


On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Phil Stracchino wrote:

>> People ask me why I bother being good with vi. Because it is on
>> virtually every *nix box I have ever used. To me it's kind of like
>> knowing how to drive a standard...
>
> When things get REALLY fun is when you find yourself on a vxo with a
> terminal so broken vi doesn't work.

It's not so hard to learn 'ed', which will work just as well on a tty as
it will in an xterm or on a vt420.

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