> It took a long time before I actually suceeded in editing and saving a file in
> VI. The installation manual does not give me any help at all, it only tells me
> to use "VI". Is there any manual or DOC aviable somewhere for VI so I can
> learn to use it, or is there any other editing tool in netBSD 1.3 ?

Learn vi. vi is not "optional".  Maybe you will learn other editors,
but vi is everywhere, and is the one you're /supposed/ to know. Like C.
The soul of Unix is a programmer editing C source with vi.

NetBSD comes with docs for vi. (/usr/share/doc/usd/...) They're in troff,
and broken, and parts are missing, and you are probably not ready to
wrestle with troff. If you want, I'll make them fairly readable ascii
and mail them to you. (around 250KB).

> I have edited fstab, incorrectly... And now the system claims that it is a
> read-only system and vi refuses to save new changes for fstab.
> Is there any help anywhere how fstab should be edited?
> 
> The installation guide should be totally rewritten :(

Into what? Man pages? Basic Unix system admin?

There are bookstores. What does a new computer cost? Take 10% of that
to a book store and buy things published by O'Reilly Associates. They
have some swell vi stuff.

Dave
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