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From: hartr@hedunx.hedland.edu.au (Robert Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.mail.pine,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: 3 questions ? ? ? Mail, Unix, Internet.
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Date: 17 Jan 1995 21:44:35 +0800
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David A Hosten (ao826@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) wrote:
: I am posting this in the hope somewhere out there [over the rainbow ;) ]
: somebody will be able these three questions. I'm a Unix newbie (being very
: familiar with less tasking [get it?] systems like Windoze, OS/2, WinNT,
: etc. So here are the questions:

Suggestion - get Linux and learn how much fun a personal Unix system is!
Apart from that...

: 1. (a) How do I change my environment to enable Pico to replace the vi editor,
: for my own personal use, on the Aix system we have at school. I know Pico
: well, and have grown accoustomed to it. Vi is fine, but, to me more of a
: pain in the butt to use. I'm auto-launched into a Korn shell at login, but
: can change at will. Any suggestions?  (b) How do I edit (and where do I
: find) my .tinrc file to enable Pico as my editor for Usenet read/reply?

set the VISUAL envirnoment variable as follows in your ~/.profile file

	export VISUAL=<editor name>
In my case I use emacs, which (IMHO) is vastly superior to pico!

: 2. (a) How may I retrieve posts to Usenet groups that my Freenet/University
: accounts do not subscribe to? There must be some way of doing an FTP
: equivalent to a site that collects the postings. (b) Is there a way of uucp
: retrieving them from sites? (c) If so, is it then possible to e-mail a group
: directly from the Pine mailer...what would be put into the To:  address
: section? (d) Why is the location of usenet-news servers appear to be
: so secret and inaccessible to the regular FTP public? Reason: there are some
: alt.fan.* groups that we would like to pick up to do some research on
: media influence.

Hm, I don't know the answer to this one...

: 3. Our recalcitrant sysadmins won't respond to e-mail, so what are you
: normally do with a student aix account? I'm trying to teach myself a bit
: of Unix (am going to decide between Free/386/NetBsd, Linux or
: Solaris [apparently have a $100 educational deal] versions), so will want
: to eventually know the answers to these questions anyway.

I would suggest you poke around and learn Unix, writing shell scripts,
try the differnt shells etc.

Have fun!

-- 
Robert Hart                                  hartr@hedunx.hedland.edu.au
Voice: +61 (0)91 72 0429                     Fax:   +61 (0)91 72 3560
Hedland College, PMB 1, South Hedland WA 6722 Australia