On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:28:39AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Now I seem to have some font problems. Netscape seems to be OK, but the
> GIMP comes up with [] [] [] [] [] in place of the hint text. The title
> bars are OK but any "filled in" text is just [] repeated. Any hints?
Some have reported that running xfs (the X font server, not the
filesystem!) helps with this. I don't know more details, merely passing
on hearsay ...
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Subject: RE: nano vs. vi on boot-floppies
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On 25-Sep-2001 Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> How can one get the boot-floppies to use nano instead of vi? E.g. for
> "edit sources list by hand"... Won't it be more sensible to hava nano be
> the default? (Actually putting in a question asking for which editor is
> a bit overkill, imho ;)
>
If this is actually the case, nano makes more sense.
