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   From: Sybren Stuvel    
   Subject: Re: Editing menu.lst   
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   BlackTopBum enlightened us with:   
   > The way you have it is read-only. To *write* to a file using nano   
   > requires the '-w': example: sudo nano -w /boot/grub/menu.lst .   
      
   Read the manual:   
      
      -w (--nowrap)   
             Disable wrapping of long lines.   
      
   It's to prevent line wrapping in configuration files that can't handle wrapped   
   lines.   
      
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