Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 23:28:00 -0800 From: "Paul" <paulturner@home.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Find and an editor Message-ID: <006801be1457$5732f460$0a00000a@pdc.frmt1.sfba.home.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Found this address in the newsgroups. I have 2.2.7 and X working fine. If only i could get find to search through multiple directories and find an X editor to edit the important files, I am sure I could go a lot farther. When I try to use "find sysinstall" for example, it searches only the current directory. I have since found /stand/sysinstall, but there are many other files I need to "find". I also would like a stable X based file editor. Please do not point me to "vi". I admit I am coming from Microsoft. We are a community service non-profit organization, and I am less than enthusiastic about supporting the commercial monopoly. If you have a moment, I would also like some hints on how to handle the fact that the rest of the "world" expects us to be able to deal with the "Word" and "Excel" files that get sent to us, if we go completely FreeBSD. Sincerely looking for a way out Paul Turner IT Director CityTeam Ministries [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Found this address in the newsgroups. I have 2.2.7 and X working fine. If only i could get find to search through multiple directories and find an X editor to edit the important files, I am sure I could go a lot farther.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>When I try to use "find sysinstall" for example, it searches only the current directory. I have since found /stand/sysinstall, but there are many other files I need to "find".</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I also would like a stable X based file editor. Please do not point me to "vi". I admit I am coming from Microsoft.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>We are a community service non-profit organization, and I am less than enthusiastic about supporting the commercial monopoly.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>If you have a moment, I would also like some hints on how to handle the fact that the rest of the "world" expects us to be able to deal with the "Word" and "Excel" files that get sent to us, if we go completely FreeBSD.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Sincerely looking for a way out</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Paul Turner</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>IT Director</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>CityTeam Ministries</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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