On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:12:07PM -0700, Ned wrote: > HI all, > I just came back from my Unix class and my teacher is getting desparate > with me. I used pico to write a little paragraph -- which went ok until I > tried to go back to some words to correct them. Because we use putty, I > can't focus the cursor on a particular letter to -- say -- delete it, and > everything got mmessed up. Then using VI, Iwas supposed to edit a paragraph > of text. After he saw what I did, he went speachless. SO tell me, is there > any other more friendly remote client like telnet or something. > Plese people, encourage me in these tough times and tell me what to do? I > appologize for posting a question little off the topic, but putty is > actually using Unix commands sent to it from the machine running it. > > Many thanks in advance good people. > Ned Hmmm, I can not find a `putty` program here on my Slackware Linux box. In any case, plain old `telnet` is not used too much these days because of security concerns--`ssh` has replaced `telnet` for most remote shell logins almost everywhere. I have used `ssh` successfully for some time to log into various systems, and I recommend strongly that you give it a try. HTH, and have a _great_ day! -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light! COSECANT (x) = COTAN (x) / TAN (x)
