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Years ago when I was first taking on interest in UNIX, I worked on
an interactive tutorial program called, "learn".  It interactively
taught fun things like "ed", "ex", and "vi".  There's gotta be an
archive of this thing somewhere.  Would some kind soul please
give me a pointer?

I've cross-posted this request to more than one newsgroup, so unless
you want your reply to also go to the other newsgroups, you might
want to just send me e-mail.

Best wishes,

Russ Button

Quote:>taught fun things like "ed", "ex", and "vi".

: Years ago when I was first taking on interest in UNIX, I worked on
: an interactive tutorial program called, "learn".  It interactively
: taught fun things like "ed", "ex", and "vi".  There's gotta be an
: archive of this thing somewhere.  Would some kind soul please
: give me a pointer?

OK.  I've gotten one pointer so far in that the "learn" program was
part of the standard BSD 4.3 distribution.  Might anyone know where
this might be archived?

Still lookin'

Russ Button

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Quote:>>taught fun things like "ed", "ex", and "vi".

>That's exactly why few if any vendors still ship it.  It's been obsolete
for
>over ten years.

In fear of repeating an editors argument - if the system goes down in a bad
way, it's not likely to have anything except those basic programs to edit
with when it comes back up - no X, no emacs just dependable ex and co.

Rob.

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Hello,

Does any one know how can I convert the Tex DVI file to a printable and
previewable file.  I mean what are its drivers, from where and how do I
get them, README for issuing their execution commands and stuff.

I hope I am clear and would appreciate if you could tell me the Tex News
Group.

Have a good day !!!

Best Regards,

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There are several previewer for dvi-files. On the X-window-system
the most popular is xdvi. To print a dvifile you can convert it
to postscript using e.g. dvips.

TeX newsgroup: comp.text.tex

Maybe it would be more useful, if you go to the local system
administrator. If you are that person, you could get a LaTeX-distribution
like teTeX (available for unix-systems) or emTeX (for DOS and OS2) from
a CTAN server (e.g. ftp.dante.de) and install it. With these distribution
comes everything: tex, latex, metafont, previewer, printer driver,
dvi->ps converter.

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You are garenteed to learn a lot , or decide you didn't realy want to know.

P.S. vi is definatly not ded , but it lacks a few feetures
      ..like interaktive spell check ;)
:
wq

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>You are garenteed to learn a lot , or decide you didn't realy want to know.

>P.S. vi is definatly not ded , but it lacks a few feetures
>      ..like interaktive spell check ;)
>:
>wq

can you recommend a Linux version, there seem to be many around.
I have come across Red Hat Spring 96 and Linux Slackware V3.0 at
reasonable prices (20 ukp), would either of these be suitable for me
to learn UNIX at home?

Take care,
Carl Parry.
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