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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Kunle 'bona wrote:

> i inadvertantly fiddled with my login parameters and deleted root from my user access, fortunately i was able to 
> restore my root account before i made an even bigger mistake of restarting the computer, anyway my root folder got 
> deleted and all my shortcuts like the "home" and "end" shortcuts got deleted , also i cant view 
> the contents of archived files in links anymore; how do i rectify  this i know that ^e is "end" and ^a is 
> "home" but i would prefer to use the home and end keys
>
> ---------------------------------

If this is BL2 you have deleted .profile, which contains aliases.
You can copy it back from the ramdisk (floppy or HD) BL2.

or
pico /root/.profile

d='links-0.93 .'

Add your other aliases to this same file, for home or end.
Or you can make scripts for them in some /bin or /sbin directory,
and remember to chmod +x the script so it is executable.

In some cases aliases will not work in an rxvt/xterm (if you make it 
manually rather than from the menu) but scripts will.