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Date:      Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:59:57 -0500
From:      Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com>
To:        "David Banning" <david+dated+1197231249.7ec844@skytracker.ca>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: looking for online text editor
Message-ID:  <8d23ec860712041259p140cb821q32bfe1aa9879ce1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071204201405.GB88299@skytracker.ca>
References:  <20071204191130.GA86443@skytracker.ca> <6.0.0.22.2.20071204134831.024c9de0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <20071204201405.GB88299@skytracker.ca>

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On Dec 4, 2007 3:14 PM, David Banning
<david+dated+1197231249.7ec844@skytracker.ca> wrote:
> >      running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run
> >      mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program
> >      out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in
> >      plain text - (not a gui html editor) ?
> >
> >    I use putty to ssh to remote servers and use vi to edit files once
> >    logged in to the server.
>
> But putty has be installed on the machine you are working on, right?
>
> I need to have access on, say a library computer, where no local software
> can be installed. I can log in to webmin and edit the files via their
> file manager.  The actual edit process does -not- appear to be java,
> but the file manager to select the file -is- java so I can't select
> the file to edit.
>
PuTTY has no installer - It's just a binary.

I think your only choices are PuTTY, that AjaxTerm someone mentioned
earlier, or AnyTerm (Linked to on the AjaxTerm website).



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