From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 11 20:27:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA16804 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:27:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from NIH2WAAE (smtp5.site1.csi.com [149.174.183.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA16799 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:27:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vertigo@nirvanafan.com) Received: from mail pickup service by csi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:27:40 -0500 Received: from nirvanafan.com (hil-c45-023-vty94.as.wcom.net [206.175.214.94]) by dub-img-ims-3.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/IMS-1.6) with ESMTP id XAA05706 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:27:29 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36C4AAE2.BA711393@nirvanafan.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 22:27:47 +0000 From: Vertigo X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: variables in vi and ee Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in the editors ee and vi are there any variables that i could put in "motd" and it would display the users name, etc. for example: Welcome (USERNAME) to this computer running FreeBSD (VERSION). time: (TIME) date: (DATE) if there is something like this PLEASE tell me. I just started using FreeBSD yesterday and its kinda confusing alittle. could someone tell me how to get my floppy drive (A:) to work? i have a disk that i used fdimage on my WinNT computer to copy a file to and it doesnt want to work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message