Text editor in HP-UX 10.20:

Problem:Solution

As an alternative to the 'vi' text editor

There are other useful programs in the usr/dt/bin directory also ( calculator ). You need the graphical environment variables, so if you log in as root, type su root (NOT su - root). The dash ( - ) in the command line tells unix to use the environment variables of the user you are switching to. The root user uses a text base environment.

Text editor in HP-UX 9.0x:

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