Re: cron on 10.5.2 server

In article <fngp141q20vat9lmk1hf0bcj773rgl75bl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Howard Brazee <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Sat, 03 May 2008 14:40:19 -0500, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> 
> >UWhat you apparently don't realize is the 'edit' command-line tool *is*

> >part of TextWrangler.  So it will naturally open TextWrangler when you 
> >issue it.  ; )
> >
> >If you want to use the 'pico' command-line tool to edit these files 
> >instead, then all you need to do is:
> >
> >     pico .bashrc
> >     pico .bash_profile
> >
> >If you wanted to use vi to edit them, you'd:
> >
> >     vi .bashrc
> >     vi .bash_profile
> >
> >Make sense?
> 
> Yes.   But I thought there was a Unix setting to define the default
> editor, and the command to invoke the default editor was "edit".   I
> guess I was wrong.

The Unix default editor is used for things where an editor is launched 
automatically, such as when you type 'crontab -e', for instance.

The 'edit' command-line tool is not part of the standard Mac OS X 
command-line tool set. It's (optionally) installed by TextWrangler thee 
very first time you launch TextWrangler.

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