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Old 12-12-2005
aarora_98 aarora_98 is offline
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Hi friends ,


I got the solution to my problem. i feel to discuss it in the form, so that others will be benifitted ...


At cmd prompt I just have to write two lines

EDITOR=vi;
export EDITOR


Now, crontab -e will open a vi editor for me. :-)


Chow.
Aru