Subject: Re: install could use some static binaries
To: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
From: Phil Knaack <flipk@idea.exnet.iastate.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/08/1996 09:52:35
Chris G Demetriou writes:
> (2) If you must put them into an editor, it should be
> much, much more user-friendly than vi or ed
> (or even emacs). Something like 'pine,' that puts
> put instructions on the screen to tell you exactly
> what keys you can use, would be a more appropriate
> default.
Is "pine" like "pico" ? I set up pico for my telnet-in-and-write-web-
pages people, because it was the easiest to understand, and simple enough to
not confuse them. "Pico" displays this at the bottom of the screen:
^G Get Help ^O WriteOut ^R Read File^Y Prev Pg ^K Del Line ^C Cur Pos
^X Exit ^J Justify ^W Where is ^V Next Pg ^U UnDel Lin^T To Spell
At the time I installed it this machine was really low on memory,
too, and pico appealed to me .. :) A static binary is 200k and a dynamic
one is 81k.
Current version I'm using is 1.4.
Cheers,
Phil
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Phillip F Knaack
Database Programmer, Information Development for Extension Audiences (IDEA)
Iowa State University Extension