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From: buck@drax.gsfc.nasa.gov (Loren (Buck) Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Personal IRIS Neophyte asks dumb questions...
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Date: 11 Apr 90 14:01:10 GMT
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In article <1520@polari.UUCP> tima@polari (tim anderson) writes:
>First, I really really want to network my PC to this thing. What do
>I have to do to get this working? I know step one is to get a WD8003
>ethernet card, but beyond that I am a bit lost...

We use Sun's PC-NFS.  From the PCs (IBM clones and an Amiga 1000) we 
can telnet and ftp from the IRIS.  we also use the IRIS as a file server 
to the PCs.

>Third, I want a NON BRAIN DEAD EDITOR, I use BRIEF religiously on my PC
>and will SORELY miss using it. I really do not want to get very good at
>'vi'...

I would suggest that you seriously look at vi.  I use it on my PC at
home for most of my editing.  It does not get in my way, and has features
that do not exist in the other editors I use.  The big advantage to vi
is that is available on every UNIX system, and will be the first (and
possibly only) editor to be standardized by POSIX.

Good Luck & B Cing U

Buck
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