An example of the Pico screen is displayed below. This is how the screen will appear when creating a brand new file. Pico is equipped with simple editing commands that are displayed at the bottom of the screen.
Text is typed into the main portion of the screen.
When opening an existing file, the text will appear in the window. You may use the arrow keys to scroll through long text files. The following is a short list of PICO commands. This document will describe how to edit and save a simple text document, and append a previously created document to the current text file being edited. Starting the Pico Editor Pico must be accessed from a telnet session.