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Starting vi (The visual Display Editor)

To begin editing a file (either one existing or one you wish to create) type,

vi [pathtofile]<filename>

If the path to the file isn't included, vi assumes that the current directory will be used.



Larry Latour
Fri Sep 12 08:12:59 EDT 1997