On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:02, Michael Holt wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, I ran /usr/lib/gpilotd and all is well.  Now, what did 'file' tell
> > me beside the fact that this was an executable file?  I noticed that
> > you said "if it's a *script* then it might tell you something useful."  
> > I tried running file on some scripts; it seems to describe what type
> > of scripts you're looking at.  Is that what you were getting at?
> 
> yeah, if file says it's a script, then you vi -R the script and see what
> it does (-R means read-only :-)

Also worth knowing is that "view" is equivalent to "vi -R" (and quite a 
bit easier to remember) ... "gview" is the same as "gvim -R", also ...

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