From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 15 7: 1:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.immure.com [207.8.42.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0518C37B66D for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 07:01:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e9FE1Gx06149 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:01:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:01:16 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: questions list Subject: Problem with vi recover Message-ID: <20001015090115.A35837@luke.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message