From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 8 20:06:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA11508 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 20:06:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from Bayou.UH.EDU (jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU [129.7.1.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA11499 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 20:06:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU) Received: from localhost (jef53313@localhost) by Bayou.UH.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA29060; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:06:40 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:06:40 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh To: mlduke@concentric.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Forwarded mail.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As I write this on terminal 6, I'm stuck in vi editing my httpd.conf file > at alaskaartist.com. "q" does not quit vi as the book I have says it does. > Any suggestions? Hurry please? > RTF man vi more carefully. First, make sure you are in command mode by hitting the escape key. Then, if you do not wish to save any changes you make, hit :q! Yes, the : goes in front of it. If you do wish to save your work, hit ZZ There is no : in front of this one, just two capital Z's. They will not be echoed. Jonathan Fosburgh, wotan@scientist.com , University of Houston Geophysics http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 FreeBSD: Turning PCs into Workstations http://www.freebsd.org ******************************************************************************* We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of our exploring shall be to arrive Where we started from, and know the place for the first time. --T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets *******************************************************************************