>> And that is where I might be getting into problems if my system is
>> borked out enough that I can't even run a text editor.  cat is my
>> friend.
> There's always /rescue/vi :-)

That works only if the problem is confined to non-/rescue portions of
the filesystem.  The problem may be non-filesystem, for example, such
as having nothing but a printing terminal available.

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