CENTOS has GNU “nano”

According to Wikipedia pico (that you mentioned) is a clone of nano, so I expect they will be similar.

Why not have your neophytes use WinSCP and a Windows editor? It facilitates keeping off-line backup copies of the files you are messing with (among other things).

73

Ken

From: Doug Crompton [mailto:doug@crompton.com]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 2:38 AM
To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org
Subject: [App_rpt-users] Editor

Is there a neophyte editor in the acid release? This is not for me, I use Vi but I am installing systems for a couple of guys who I would not trust with Vi.  I know IRLP uses Pico on Debian and that seems like a nice simple editor. Is that available for Centos?

73 Doug
WA3DSP
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