[TUHS] v7 uucp debugging help requested
John Cowan
cowan at ccil.org
Tue Jul 7 07:47:49 AEST 2020
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 5:19 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> There was also the client we had in PNG, where access was via a flakey
> 1200 modem i.e. no error correction, and VI was out of the question.
>
The old 'o' command (which does the same as 'vi' in vim) was designed for
that situation, provided your terminal isn't a printing one. A one-line
window is cheap enough; backspace and carriage-return give you
everything you need.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
The Imperials are decadent, 300 pound free-range chickens (except they have
teeth, arms instead of wings, and dinosaurlike tails). --Elyse Grasso
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