Hi Blake, Nice work on the list of future HowTos, thanks all for getting this rolling! I assume that you've sent the issue you're having to the osol-help or ZFS aliases? Just want to be sure the rigth folks know so they can help you out.
-Michelle Blake wrote On 05/08/07 17:42,: > There should be links to in-depth coverage of associated tools in each > of these HOWTO documents. The vi resources would be a perfect start. > Man pages should be linked as well. > > A sidebar or side-note each time a specific tool (like vi) is first > mentioned would be a nice way to let the reader fork off into deeper > material at their whim. > > > > I should add that I'm going to have to take a break from documentation > until I get the issues with my Syba 4-channel SATA controller worked > out - it's a Silicon Image 3114 chipset, but I can't get the included > Solaris 10 (11/06) drivers to attach to it. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > > Blake > > > > On 5/8/07, *Brian Gupta* <brian.gupta at gmail.com > <mailto:brian.gupta at gmail.com>> wrote: > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vi6/chapter/ch08.html > > On 5/8/07, Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com > <mailto:rheilke at dragonhearth.com>> wrote: > > Really? Wow, I've never heard of this before. I've never really > been a > > vi guru by any stretch, but this is a real surprise. Sorry, > everyone, > > and thanks for correcting me, Eric. I never bought the O'Reilly > book, as > > I never pushed vi hard enough to need it. Between that, and some > of the > > extensions being undocumented otherwise, it would explain my > complete > > obliviousness to this. > > > > I'll have to look into this some. > > > > Rainer > > > > Eric Lowe wrote: > > > > >Solaris vi does have some non-standard extensions, such as a > tag stack. Some of them are undocumented. The O'Reilly vi book ( > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vi6/index.html) has a nice > comparison and a description of the Solaris-specific features. > > > > > >- Eric > > > > > >----- Original Message ---- > > >From: Rainer Heilke < rheilke at dragonhearth.com > <mailto:rheilke at dragonhearth.com>> > > >To: Blake <blake.irvin at gmail.com <mailto:blake.irvin at gmail.com>> > > >Cc: Richard L. Hamilton < rlhamil at smart.net > <mailto:rlhamil at smart.net>>; docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > <mailto:docs-discuss at opensolaris.org> > > >Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2007 10:45:56 PM > > >Subject: Re: [docs-discuss] Re: 'cheat sheets' for common > administrative tasks > > > > > >The vi that comes with Solaris 10 is the standard, generic vi > from Bill > > >Joy (the author, I believe). There is nothing Solaris-specific > that I > > >know of, and that's comparing it to the vi from FreeBSD as well. > > > > > >You are correct about Linux; the distros/versions I've looked > at all > > >linked the vi command to vim. It was actually a source of > frustration to > > >me, as vim does not behave like vi. > > > > > >Rainer > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > docs-discuss mailing list > > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org <mailto:docs-discuss at opensolaris.org> > > > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org <mailto:docs-discuss at opensolaris.org> > > > > > -- > > blake/ > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >docs-discuss mailing list >docs-discuss at opensolaris.org >
