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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers SunOs problem running crontab -e Post 302349771 by TonyFullerMalv on Tuesday 1st of September 2009 06:56:53 PM
Old 09-01-2009
It does look like crontab -e is putting you into ed(1) rather than vi and the usual fix is to set EDITOR to equal vi, suggest you ensure that when you type vi at the promp you do actually get vi if not that needs fixing otherwise try switching shells, setting EDITOR and running vi and then crontab -e in the alternate shell: e.g.:
Code:
$ ksh
$ export EDITOR=vi
$ vi  
# Confirm you are in vi and not ed, then quit from vi, then run:
$ crontab -e

 

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       mdbFontSize - Font Size

DESCRIPTION

       In some case, a font contains incorrect information about its size (typically in the case of a hacked TrueType font), which results in a
       bad text layout when such a font is used in combination with the other fonts. To overcome this problem, the m17n library loads information
       about font-size adjustment from the m17n database by the tags <font, resize>. The data is loaded as a plist of this format.

       FONT-SIZE-ADJUSTMENT ::= PER-FONT *

       PER-FONT ::= '(' FONT-SPEC ADJUST-RATIO ')'

       FONT-SPEC ::=
	   '(' [ FOUNDRY FAMILY
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	    REGISTRY ')'

       ADJUST-RATIO ::= INTEGER

       FONT-SPEC is to specify properties of a font. FOUNDRY to REGISTRY are symbols corresponding to Mfoundry to Mregistry property of a font.
       See m17nFont for the meaning of each property.

       ADJUST-RATIO is an integer number specifying by percentage how much the font-size must be adjusted. For instance, this PER-FONT:

	   ((devanagari-cdac) 150)

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