From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 19:12:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92EE11065679 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:12:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@ethic.thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D38EB8FC14 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:12:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ethic.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id oAMIc6uv065283; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:38:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@ethic.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id oAMIc6n0065282; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:38:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:38:06 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20101122183806.GA65233@thought.org> References: <20101121234910.GA28924@thought.org> <20101122090445.e305132e.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101122090445.e305132e.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=3.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on ethic.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: where is my text file? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:12:20 -0000 On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:04:45AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:49:12 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > I was using vim to vreate a file and cleaned up file~. now when i > > type vim file I only see data? is there a w ay of recovering the > > file or did I screw ssomething up? > > Check if /var/tmp/vi.recover does contain something. Also > check if vim has been set to automatically create backups > (of files before they get overwritten). > > No joy. I think what happened was that i tried nvi and got an error message that the file was an 8-bit and would be truncated. I quit out of vi [[nvi], but the damage was done. --Oh well. I probly should give jmy shoulder a bre ak anyway. (******) > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org ethic