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A shell script to edit text files as root in the GUI
Authored by: bawbb on Sep 01, '04 12:08:11AM

Ah, maybe I am missing something, or maybe it is because I have an UNIX background and not an OS9 one but..


sudo vi filename


seems to work fine and is quite simple!



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A shell script to edit text files as root in the GUI
Authored by: klktrk on Sep 01, '04 01:17:00AM

I was responding to someone who was recommending using BBEdit, not vi, or emacs, or pico.



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