On 04/24/2010 11:48 AM, Bernard wrote: [snip]
You're right : I had done the trial late last night, doing something else in the meantime, so I'd mixed things up. I just checked again: /bin/sh is a file. But it contains binary data, at least I suppose so, since it reads strange characters such as a number of carets and arobase.
What seems to be confusing you is that not all Unix/Linux users use bash. A definite minority use zsh.
The ncftp instructions told you (in, I think, an awkward manner) how to set EDITOR if you use bash (or it's predecessor sh).
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