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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2001 07:35:28 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Cristina Ghirlanda <cristina@dog.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: recovering vi editor sessions
Message-ID:  <20010820073528.B506@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B83AA4E@dog.com>; from cristina@dog.com on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0400
References:  <3B83AA4E@dog.com>

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On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0400, Cristina Ghirlanda wrote:
>    Once I exited vi incorrectly, from that on every time whenever I try to 
> start FreeBSD it stops at "Recovering vi editor sessions", sometimes it goes 
> on, sometimes it doesn't (or it takes terribly much time). I received the mail 
> for that and deleted, but then next time there is the same mail and it stops 
> for recovering the same. I would like to know how to stop it. Thanks.

do as the emails tell you: go to the right directory and do
"vi -r filename". Then, I don't recall correctly to be honest,
write it to /deve/null if you don't want to keep it and quit vi.

The reason why it takes so long is probably that the vi-recover-program
is trying to use sendmail to inform you, but that you don't have
an internet connection yet (is that possible?) so it waits for
dns-time-outs.

Edwin

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