[Klug-general] Gentoo for the first time.

[David Halliday]

If the file is empty you can use cat (both to output the file and to input
data into it). You can also input data to a file with echo.

You can try nano, pico, joe as possible editors.

On 12 November 2010 21:51, Michael E. Rentell
<michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>wrote:

> G'day all,
> Linux Format this month has a tutorial on Gentoo. Oh good I thought - I've
> got an old x86 PC lying around doing nothing so I thought I'd give it a
> whirl to keep me awake in the afternoons. All part of the self-improvement
> process.
>
> All has gone very well until I read the line:
>
> Open /etc/make.conf and set the following for the USE line:
>
> USE="-gtk -gnome qt4 kde dvd alsa cdr"
>
> Save and exit,....
>
> Ha, how do you do that when the install system does not respond to vi, ed
> or emacs?
>
> Presumably an editor is needed to play with the file make.conf.
>
> Am I missing something here?
> MikeR
>
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