Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 10:58:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman <tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com> To: Pete Vanderburgh <peterv@verio.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nvi saved the file [xyz] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906021057210.10215-100000@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com> In-Reply-To: <37556DB9.C4A2CCA2@verio.net>
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Forgive me if I am incorrect. You are writing the file and saving it (ex: ZZ or :wq) and not just suspending it (ctrl z)? On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Pete Vanderburgh wrote: > Hey y'all. I've been looking through questions and usenet, and haven't > seen this one before, but I think it's a simple question. > > Every time I edit a file with the vi editor, and log out of my local > host, the next time I log in, I always get the message from root (Nvi > recovery program): > > On [date&time] the user peterv was editing a file named [xyz] on the > machine [host.here.net], when it was saved for recovery. You can > recover most, if not all, of the changes to this file using the -r > option to vi: > > vi -r [xyz] > --- > > ... where 'xyz' is the file I was editing. Any ideas what I can do to > get rid of these annoying messages? I'll often get several if I worked > on said file many times in a session. I'm using FreeBSD 3.1 Stable and > IceWm for X-Windows. > > Thanks in advance! > > > ===================================== > Pete Vanderburgh > Verio Web Hosting, Vienna, VA. > peterv@verio.net > ===================================== > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ========================================================================= Todd Backman "there are two major products <tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com> that came out of berkley: Geek and FreeBSD user lsd and unix. Seattle, WA we don't believe this to be "Chaos is a good teacher..." a coincidence." j.s.anderson ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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