From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 23:20:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA17248 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:20:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA17182 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:19:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA01997; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:21:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:21:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Paul Walsh cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvi saved the file 3warks.txt?? In-Reply-To: <32997AED.7058@nation-net.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Paul Walsh wrote: > Anyone know what this means. I have never heard of this .txt file and > why did nvi take 2 weeks to tell me about it? 1. You hadn't rebooted the machine in two weeks, or it took a couple of cycles to some back up. 2. You rebooted the machine in the middle of a file edit and vi saved the file before it quit. You can run the command, then just :q! to quit and not save the file if you don't care for it. Or save it if you really do want it. > > On Wed Oct 30 15:34:54 1996, the user root was editing a > > file named 3warks.txt on the machine www.walshsimmons.co.uk, > > when it was saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not > > all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to nex > > or nvi: > > > > nvi -r 3warks.txt Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major