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From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
Subject: editor, man/less, dns setup, screen setup
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:08:13 +0200

* bituman (bituman@ene...) wrote:
> Ahoi all.. well my computer had seen plan9 a few times before : )
> Now i just got a new laptop. I could finally install plan9 after a few
> smaller probs.
> The machine is a gericom laptop.. i know... with a geforce GO video
> card, plus a TFT capable of 1024x768x32bit
> prob#1: i cant seem to make GUI work. its that simple.
> prob#2: prob#1 wouldnt be a big problem, i love console : ), but there's
> no more and less commands, and i cant scroll console. how can this be
> done? can't seem to find in the wiki
> prob#3: is there a simple text editor like nano or vi available for
> plan9? im sure i will love plan9's ed but becouse of prob#2 i cant even
> really read its man page...
> and i am not in the mood to execute man ed | sed 10q, then man ed | sed
> 20q and so on... just to read it
> and i do need the editor, becouse i have set 195.56.77.141 as my default
> domain name server.
> thanks for your help in advance guys : )

Hello,

I think you need p(1).

Oh, and its manpage fits on a screenful.