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From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,alt.sources.wanted,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Wanted: Simple text editor on Unix for non-unix types.
Keywords: editor, novice-users, wanted
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.221010.1199@research.canon.oz.au>
Date: 31 Jan 91 22:10:10 GMT
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In article <1991Jan31.032646.13509@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU> root@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Hulk Hogan) writes:
>
>	...about wanting a word processor for UNIX...
>
>Anyone have/know of such a beast.  What do other sysprogs do? Give their
>users a vi or emacs manual??  :)
>
>/\ndy
>-- 
>Andrew M. Jones,  Systems Programmer, 	Internet: andy@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au
>Centre for Lang. Teaching & Research, 	Phone (Australia):  (07) 365 6915
>University of Queensland,  St. Lucia, 	Phone (World):    +61  7 365 6915
>Brisbane,  Qld. AUSTRALIA  4072 	Fax: 		  +61  7 365 7077

You should see the user guides that come with desktop SparcStation's
these days (at least IPC's and SLC's). In some sections they explain
in full detail how to copy a file and then tell the user to run vi
to edit it! They're assuming the poor person has no knowledge of cp
but dump them into vi with no mercy (to make it worse this is in
the section on re-configuring the kernel!).


-- 
Andrew Newman, Software Engineer.            | Net:   andy@research.canon.oz.au
Canon Information Systems Research Australia | Phone: +61 2 805 2914
P.O. Box 313 North Ryde, NSW, Australia 2113 | Fax:   +61 2 805 2929