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From: tin@szebra.uucp (Tin Le)
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: <1991Feb4.053951.7722@szebra.uucp>
Date: 4 Feb 91 05:39:51 GMT
References: <1991Jan31.032646.13509@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU> <1991Jan31.221010.1199@research.canon.oz.au>
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In article <1991Jan31.221010.1199@research.canon.oz.au> andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
>
>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!).

   Ahem!  What are "they" doing re-configuring the kernel when they
   don't know what the hell they are doing?  Or do you really allow
   new users to also setup and configure a system straight from the
   box too?  :)

   I admire that attitude, yeah, throw them into the fire, how else
   are they going to learn? :) :)

-- Tin
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