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Date:      Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:23:58 -0600
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        David Banning <david+dated+1197231249.7ec844@skytracker.ca>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: looking for online text editor
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20071204162235.0248a278@mail.computinginnovations.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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At 02:14 PM 12/4/2007, David Banning 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 is pretty much standalone executable, at least the one for Windows 
is, you can run it from a thumb drive.

If you need a web based application, you can install firefox on a thumb 
drive as well.

         -Derek

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