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RE: Crontab problems


I can think of several Cygwin-supported
alternatives/workarounds.
None of them address your question, however.

1. Set the environment variable EDITOR to 'vi'
or 'vim', as suggested by Nicholas Wourms:

   $ export EDITOR=vi
   $ crontab -e

2. Install 'nano' using 'setup.exe'.  nano is
   a small emacs-like editor (closer to emacs
   than to vi).  Then set EDITOR to nano:

   $ export EDITOR=nano
   $ crontab -e

3. Install 'emacs' using 'setup.exe' and set
   EDITOR to 'emacs' or 'emacs -nw':

   $ export EDITOR=emacs
   $ crontab -e

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:nwourms@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 4:48 PM
> To: Raphael; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Crontab problems
> 
> 
> 
> --- Raphael <raphael@oninet.pt> wrote:
> > Hi guys/girls~,
> > 
> > I'm having a bit of a problem with my windows based editor. Using
> > it with
> > Pine or Mutt is not problem. Using it with Crontab -e gives a
> > sharing
> > violation error when I want to save the new file.
> > 
> > Is this a crontab problem?
> 
> Use vi.exe
> 
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