From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 19 21:44: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shorts.nts-online.net (dns2.nts-online.net [216.167.161.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A254137B71D for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:44:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clcont@gmx.net) Received: from king1 (dialup-lbb-0534.nts-online.net [216.167.133.24]) by shorts.nts-online.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f2K5VvO03022; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:31:57 -0600 Message-ID: <002c01c0b100$42aca160$1885a7d8@king1> From: "Christopher Leigh" To: "David Kelly" , References: <200103200128.f2K1SCe99911@grumpy.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:40:22 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG uhm, i know what alias does, but... what does ls -lt !* do? i read the bash man page. uhm, that was a few months ago. and i never really figured out what ! did. i was sorta kinda thinking that it was to insert the last command, but i'm probably wrong. still haven't booted into a *nix os. but. thank you anyway. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: David Kelly To: Christopher Leigh Cc: Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:28 PM Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? > "Christopher Leigh" writes: > > uhm, what does that do? > > > > :D > > The alias saves the memory which would be consumed with an extra shell. > Or it saves the effort of loading a shell script only to exec vi. > > > but anywho. uhm. i have to use winderz to write email/send it... > > because i like my OE5 way better than anything i've ever seen using > > bsd/linux. but really... i do enjoy "mail", although... i guess i must > > not be able to use it very well, because i can't figure out how to > > create a message when i type mail, or... figure out how to get into it > > when i don't actually have any mail... > > /usr/bin/Mail is pretty basic. Is best to specify who you want to send > mail to on the command line. "mail dkelly@hiwaay.net" will then prompt > for a subject, then you type the message body, and end with a dot at > the start of a line. > > If you are in Mail and looking at a list of messages then "m" will let > you compose a new message. > > But if you get that far then you need something such as sendmail > configured correctly to deliver the message. And fetchmail (from ports) > is good for plucking incoming mail off your ISP. > > On a text terminal, mutt is very good. In X I use exmh2.3.1 but have > been liking mutt even more lately but not enough to completely switch. > > What I'd really like is a BSD Eudora. With MacOS X arriving Saturday I > think Qualcomm is going to have to be working on a BSD Eudora. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message