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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers word wrap in vi Post 30987 by Kelam_Magnus on Wednesday 30th of October 2002 12:30:08 PM
Old 10-30-2002
First, don't hit the enter/return key when you go to the next line, JUST KEEP TYPING and you will be okay, at least you should be.

However, what you are looking for is wordwrap. While vi'ing a file. do ":set all " at the command line and change from 0 to some number.

Here is a great VI link.

http://www.thomer.com/vi/vi.html

Smilie
 

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URL(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    URL(4)

NAME
url -- Realtek RTL8150L USB Ethernet driver SYNOPSIS
url* at uhub? urlphy* at mii? DESCRIPTION
The url driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Realtek RTL8150L USB-ether bridge chip. The url driver supports the following adapters: CompUSA USBKR100 GreenHouse GH-USB100B Melco Inc. LUA-KTX Sitecom LN013 For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8). DIAGNOSTICS
url%d: watchdog timeout A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission before a timeout expired. url%d: no memory for rx list The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. SEE ALSO
arp(4), mii(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY
The url device driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6. AUTHORS
The url driver was written by Shingo WATANABE <nabe@nabechan.org>. BSD
September 18, 2006 BSD
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