editing config files

[Brian Locke]

$ vi /etc/sane.d/dll.conf

  If you've never used vi before, try:

$ vimtutor



On 6/1/08, gordonsmall User <gordonsmall at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I am brand new to Ubuntu and the command line interface.  Years ago I
> used DOS, but there has been a lot of water over the dam since then.
> Anyway, I am trying to get my scanner (Epson Perfection 2450) to play
> well with Ubuntu, and have been working thru manual installation on an
> AMD 64 3800 machine.  One of the instructions is:
>
> Edit the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and enable the right driver for your
> scanner. Look for the lines that say:
>
>
> # The following backends are not part of the SANE distribution
>
> # but are provided by the libsane-extras Debian package
>
>
> Below it are several commented out lines. Uncomment (delete the #) the
> right one for your scanner.
>
>
>
> How do you physically edit this file - I also have trouble finding it
> after I installed it with the package manager.
>
> Gordon Small
>
>
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