From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 20 14: 0:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E532914FA2 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 14:00:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA77080; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:04:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199911202204.RAA77080@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: how to recover myself from vi files recovering In-Reply-To: from Ariel Burbaickij at "Nov 20, 1999 09:00:48 pm" To: Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de (Ariel Burbaickij) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:04:04 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ariel Burbaickij wrote, > Vi keeps on recovering of files on every startup of system. > I see that is sometimes very desired feature but in my case > it produce the same copies of same files I do not need any > more again again.Because what I have is rather desktop > then server I need relative ofen to shutdown and reboot system > so the the numbers of copies I get goes to 10 or more copies > of same file.Couls it somehow be handled? Remove the recovery files. They are located in /var/tmp/vi.recover. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message