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   From: Hadron    
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   Subject: Re: Editing menu.lst   
   Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:23:18 +0100   
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   BlackTopBum  writes:   
      
   > Sybren Stuvel, was all like, you know, and said something like...   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Well, damn - you're right! I mistakenly *assumed* it meant "write" from   
   > my days using Gentoo. My bad ... thanks for correcting me, Sybren.   
      
   And using wrong command line on a file like menu.lst would ......   
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