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From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org>
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To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
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In article <199707172133.OAA03939@phaeton.artisoft.com> you wrote:
> FWIW: I have been able to repeat this with vi and files in frags.  You
> have to do all of the following before updated fires.

> 1)	Create a very small file
> 2)	Copy it to another name
> 3)	append to it in vi
> 4)	go back to the first one
> 5)	append to it in vi
> 6)	Edit the first file; there are now NUL's where you did the
> 	first append.

> This was happening with great frequency with a two mall shell
> scripts, RESET and RESETD, which I was using to play with an
> LDAP server on FreeBSD.

over NFS, right?

btw, which LDAP server, ldapd from UMICH?

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