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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Help with editors for posting
Message-ID: <535@wet.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 09:19:05 GMT
References: <12444@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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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=-