>Interesting to see what a debate my 'B: not found' caused. However the first
>soultion was the one I needed. vi had placed a 'B' on the first line of my
>rc.conf, probably while playing around with the arrow keys.

hehehe.  we're funny, aren't we?

>I have not used my youth to play games with the "hjkl" keys and my
>experience in UNIX is completely based on editing with emacs. Therefore the
>natural thing was to install that editor as soon as my new system was up and
>running. Unfortunately I was forced to use vi for some files (e.g. rc.conf)
>and along the way some strange things happened with the files... ;-)

i understand.  i'm more fond of the arrow keys than i am of hjkl
myself.

>Thanks for the help!

np.

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