Jeff Dean on Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:19:00 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] socf: questions


At 08:02 AM 3/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 07:20:13AM -0500, socf wrote:
>> I'm linux beginner, i started touching it  about two month ago, however i
>> want to just ask a few questions.
>> 1) In dos, to edit some text file we use the command "edit", like "edit
>> hello.txt" Is there something like "edit" in linux?
>
>The most popular Linux editors are emacs, vi.  They almost certainly
>were installed with your distribution.

Better yet, if you're used to edit.exe, try pico.

>> 2) How do i change my hostname?
>
>I *think* this may depend on your distribution.  On Red Hat you use
>linuxconf.
>
>> 3) what's the command that have the same funtion as " dir /p " in linux?
>
>ls -l | less
>
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