From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 22:13:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDB2F14A08 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 22:13:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA02444; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:09:55 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:09:55 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Langa Kentane Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: NVI Recover Prog Messages In-Reply-To: <000101beffa5$a4d12810$1ba8ef9b@impakt> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Langa Kentane wrote: > I installed my FreeBSD 3.2-R yesterday and have since got about 25 of these > messages about some files being saved for recovery. I tried to changed my > shell yesterday but had problems with VI and am still preparing to learn how > to edit in vi. I could not exit vi so I stopped the process and went and > killed it about 5 min later. When you kill vi, it will save a session that you can recover (some of the time). The editor will email you about it. And the way to quit vi is to hit: : q Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message