Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:50:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake) Cc: dpilgrim@uswest.net, cjclark@home.com, jaco@titine.fr.eu.org, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minimal download for a test install ? Message-ID: <199902261450.JAA06018@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <19990226194453.45866@welearn.com.au> from Sue Blake at "Feb 26, 99 07:44:53 pm"
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Sue Blake wrote, > On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 11:33:26PM -0800, D Pilgrim wrote: > > On Feb 26, 1999 @ around 04:55 GMT, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > >Eric Jacoboni wrote, > > >> So my question : what are the absolute mandatory files/directories > > >> to have a minimal FBSD system ? (be cool with my phone bill ;-) > > > > > >Depends on what abilities are mandatory to you. Generally, people say > > >that the 'bin' and 'manpages' distributions are the _absolute_ > > >minimum. > > > > If I recall correctly (been years since a minimal install), bin includes > > only vi, in which case you might want to add emacs to > > the list if you're none too keen on vi. > > No-no-no, bin includes ed, and ed is a perfectly good editor. Whoa! Either you're making jokes that a lot of newbies might not get or you made a little mistake there, Sue. 'ed' is a line editor. In fact, vi is a 'visual' (and more user friendly =) version of ed. Did you mean 'ee,' Sue? BTW, there is a pretty funny (but I'm a geek, but if you're on this list too...) Usenet message about ed, vi, and emacs that comes with the emacs distribution. See the message with subject, "The True Path (long)" in /usr/local/share/emacs/20.2/etc/JOKES. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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