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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: Help
Keywords: Programming cshell stuff
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Date: 23 Jan 91 23:00:57 GMT
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In article <2175@sumax.seattleu.edu> kiuchi@sumax.seattleu.edu (Usagi Yojimbo) writes:
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>    Being a person who has learned programming from an apple computer, I am 
>having a lot of difficulties in trying to program in the unix via vi editor.

	There is no such thing as pogramming "in the unix via vi editor"...

	vi is simply an editor... Like AppleWorks, AppleWriter, WordPerfect,
etc... It's just an online "word processor" (although "editor" is more 
appropriate)
	Since you seem to be just starting vi also, I'd like to tell you that 
it DOES get better! Most people (including me) seem to HATE vi for a while,
even months/years... But eventually you find out that it can do a HELL of a 
lot for you, and is actually quite nice... Although another UNIX editor,
emacs, allegedly does it better, vi will autoindent for you when you're
writing a program... Very handy...  Now, I actually -like- vi. I certainly
don't use it for actual writing of reports and stuff (I was actually
very surprised yesterday when someone I know was using vi to write a report..
He used other tools also that are for use with laser printers)

>Questions are:


>1)How do I do a for next loop in this language, ex. FOR A =1 TO 1000 :NEXT

	WHAT language are you using? That's the main question that needs
to be answered. The only thing that I can think of as being called
"programming in unix" (without using a specific language name), would be
programming shell scripts... 

>2)How do I print the certain number's character string, ex CHR$(A)
>3)How do I print variables, ex PRINT A

	See the answer for #1!

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