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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 20:59:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kim Culhan <kimc@w8hd.org>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: vipw broken in 612 snap
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On Sat, 22 Jun 1996, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Jun 1996, Kim Culhan wrote:

> > Looks like ee was moved from /stand, copying it into /stand allows
> > vipw to run although the editor it starts isn't vi.
> 
> It's not broken, really, it's just deciding to use the editor defined by 
> the EDITOR variable, but vipw can't work with ee.

Actually it did appear to work.

kim

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