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To: Don Wilde <Don@PartsNow.com>
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Subject: Re: VI recoveries 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Jun 1997 16:10:36 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 23:17:46 -0700
From: Donald Acton <acton@opentext.com>
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>A while ago, one of my users lost track of a vi session and I've since 
>eradicated his account. Unfortunately, my system tries to 'recover' it 
>every time it boots. Where is the information being saved?


Try /var/tmp/vi.recover and look for a recovery file belonging to that user. 


Donald Acton
acton@opentext.com