WoofyDugfock
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Posted: Sep. 23 2004,13:39 |
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I've started playing with DSL and am very impressed at what you get for under 50mB. BUT I'm 100% *nix newbie on a LAN behind NAT and can only get to the web through a corporate proxy.
In the tips files on the boot CDROM is says to edit the settings in wgetrc to go through your proxy. OK, so I open scite and open /etc/wgetrc/ and the comments are self-explanatory.
But when I alter this file accordingly and try to save back to /etc/ I get a message saying "cannot save file". Same message if I try to save it to /home/ instead (for local user). Opening a shell and then typing sudo scite to then do the same (I thought perhaps you had to be super user or whatever) made no difference.
Grrrrrr!!! What am I failing to grasp here? Isn't it just like opening an .ini file with notepad in Windoze and changing it? Apparently not. I've been looking at *nix primers on the web and they are not helping.
Thanks for any assistance - I realise these beginner questions must seem rather naive to *nix people.
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