Subject: Pico mystery...

From: [email-masked] (Simone Shoemaker)
Date: 6 Nov 1995 08:29:17 GMT

Can anybody help me solve this mystery:

I edited a few files in pico, in my home directory. I know they are 
there, because I can recall them with ^R as long as I remember their name.
The latter is sometimes a problem.

But when I ask to see a list of my files (from the unix promt I changed 
to my home directory and asked "ls", it lists all kinds of weird stuff 
I've never heard of, but none of my files.

So, where are they? How can I see them listed?

Please e-mail if you have a suggestion...

Simone

P.S. Last time I tried the "ls" command I actually DID see my files 
listed. Today, it gave me a bunch of other stuff instead. Is my computer 
going nuts?

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 18:31:58 +0100 (MET)

> So, where are they? How can I see them listed?

Send us your password and we'll take a look.  :-)

Simone - ask your sysadmin, ok?!
We cannot look at your files.

Sven

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 7 Nov 1995 18:14:56 -0800

>From within pico type:
 
  ^R ^T 

to get into the file browser.  You'll see a list of your files and
at the top it will tell you what directory you're in.
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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan and DearOldDad)
Date: 7 Nov 1995 14:58:26 GMT

Simone Shoemaker ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I edited a few files in pico, in my home directory. I know they are 
: there, because I can recall them with ^R as long as I remember their name.
: The latter is sometimes a problem.
: But when I ask to see a list of my files (from the unix promt I changed 
: to my home directory and asked "ls", it lists all kinds of weird stuff 
: I've never heard of, but none of my files.

You were obviously not in the correct directory, or possibly if you were 
looking for a hidden file (such as .newsrc for example) the ls command 
will not show .files ...

: So, where are they? How can I see them listed?

After you type ^R, if you can't remember the filename type ^T to bring up 
a list of files.

: P.S. Last time I tried the "ls" command I actually DID see my files 
: listed. Today, it gave me a bunch of other stuff instead. Is my computer 
: going nuts?

Nope, that just proves that you were in a different directory on each of 
those 2 occasions.  Hope this helps.  G'Day.
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