In message <199711120533.XAA11071@guinness.uaccess.net>, Eric Haszlakiewicz wri
tes:
>	oh.  hmmm... is that what the current man page refers to as
>"Enter open mode"?  If so, what would the "/pattern/" do?  

What happens is, at the /, you get a new line with '/' on it, you type
pattern, you type /, you type '\n', and you get a new line with the first
match on it, or you get an error and you get a new line with the current
line on it.

>(Is there some easy to get to place that documents how open mode acts/works?)

No.  There's old vi, if you can find a system with it.

-s