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From: "Bruce G. Stewart" <bruce.g.stewart@wor...>
Subject: [9fans] Re: How do I edit vgadb?
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:33:23 GMT

ed is kvetching because there it cannot create a file in the directory named
in the environment variable TMP.
Your best bet is to log in as glenda, not none. That way you'll have a tmp
directory available.


Nathaniel Banks wrote:

> Well, I made it through installing Plan 9 by editing /lib/vgadb in MS
> Windows.  The install completed, and now I need to make the same change to
> the installed system's /lib/vgadb.  At user[none], if I enter glenda, the
> system can't start the gui, and when I ls, I get an incomplete file
> structure listed.  If I just choose none, if I type in ed to try and edit
> anything, I just get a line that says ?TMP, and another % prompt.
>
> Any ideas on what I might have missed?
>
> Nathaniel Banks
> Political Science Major
> Western Michigan University