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Date:      Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:01:16 -0500
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To:        questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Problem with vi recover
Message-ID:  <20001015090115.A35837@luke.immure.com>

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My system crashed while I had a number of unsaved changes to a file and
unfortunately "vi -r myfile" fails for me.  When I try it I get:

+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
There are other files for you to recover; gipmain.c: modified: line 1.
Error: unable to retrieve line 39; Error: unable to retrieve line 40.
Error: unable to retrieve line 41; Error: unable to retrieve line 42.
Error: unable to retrieve line 43; Error: unable to retrieve line 44.
Error: unable to retrieve line 45; Error: unable to retrieve line 46.
Error: unable to retrieve line 47; Error: unable to retrieve line 48.
Error: unable to retrieve line 49; Error: unable to retrieve line 50.
Error: unable to retrieve line 39; Error: unable to retrieve line 40.
Error: unable to retrieve line 41; Error: unable to retrieve line 42.
Error: unable to retrieve line 43; Error: unable to retrieve line 44.
Error: unable to retrieve line 45; Error: unable to retrieve line 46.
Error: unable to retrieve line 47; Error: unable to retrieve line 48.
Error: unable to retrieve line 49; Error: unable to retrieve line 50

errors repeated over and over and the vi process hangs (after allocating
258MB of memory).

Does "vi -r" work for others?  Is it possible that I just have some
kind of configuration error on my system?  Any help would be greatly
appreciated...I really don't want to have to recreate my changes! :-(

Thanks,
Bob

-- 
Bob Willcox                 Have the courage to take your own thoughts
bob@VIEO.com                seriously, for they will shape you.
Austin, TX                        -- Albert Einstein


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