-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, > there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a > "required" thing... > There is at least 'ae' installed and this is documented. At least i knew this after having read the installation instructions when i installed Debian 1.1.6 two weeks ago. This is a very easy to understand editor for the aspiring Debian Linux newbie and a complete limitation and annoyance for someone who would prefer a 'vi' variant which is not installed at all up to this point. But i remember to have been completely helpless in my first steps with Linux one and a half year ago when it came up to edit a file with 'vi' then...
> another thing... 'man' doesn't seem to exist! Logged in as root, typing > 'man man' gives "command not found" -- and it's not in /usr/bin. > Yes, that's true. At least some man pages are installed but without pager this is pretty useless. Well, one could read them with 'more' but... > what gives?? > In the end after installation? A fine Linux system! I have a smoothly running system now and i am very pleased because of the packaging system. Well, there are some hassles but then, why not? Nothing is perfect! Regards, Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: cp850 Comment: 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' for public key. iQCVAwUBMj/Grugqiw1XE3/lAQEZ4AQAuhZPJnr5w5ChsnMgw6wHUVMf32jA1KsL zNd5tbGeLnsxEx2ANyEJzm+SV1x9hP9v0grdSt/o6ugt9LvI98mMHZ7jeB6QiDI+ h/s4OHT53Wemj4jQ/TsAu1nZb4n8wSLdlLhGSLQ3BxTHMq6c9Ow0+8yI5XuaBxJi Ezzqhl17mT0= =jGFG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----