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Subject: Re: vi problems
To: peter%ski.austin.ibm.com@tkg.com (Peter Jeffe)
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 12:57:26 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <9602030545.AA31407@ski.austin.ibm.com> from "Peter Jeffe" at Feb 2, 96 11:45:14 pm
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> I'm getting an illegal instruction whenever I use "w" or "/" in vi.
> This is on a 486 with 8 megs.  Is this a known problem or do I need
> to dig around a bit?  Is there a better way to find out known bugs
> without bothering you guys?  Thanks!
> 
> -- peter jeffe  peter@tkg.com  jeffe@austin.ibm.com  http://tkg.com

This is probably an installation problem at your part.
Do you have swap space? do you have /tmp? Which version
of OS? how did you install it?Under what circumstances does it
happen? Editing an empty file/new file?Are you in single user
mode or multi user mode? Are your file systems checked OK?

Is your hardware OK? (memory, disk?)

> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de