EDITOR is an environment variable.  You might want to read the man page 
for the shell you use (sh, csh, tcsh, whatever..), or, better yet, get a 
good beginning UNIX/UNIX system administration book.  The mailing list 
archives have tons of suggestions.  To run unix at home, you really have 
to know both sides of the system (user and administrator).

Good Luck,
David Bushong

On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, John S. wrote:

> Sorry for this newbie question.. :)
> I want to set pico as my editor; I have read that I need to set the 
> EDITOR to pico.. but which file I change isnt mentioned. (I.e in the vipw 
> man pages it is mentioned). Thanks for all the help. I am up to july 1996 
> in the port-mac68 mailing list archives.. what a tremendous education. 
> 
> john
> 
> 

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