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Date:      Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:45:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Pete Vanderburgh <peterv@verio.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Nvi saved the file [xyz]
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906041045340.12183-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <37556DB9.C4A2CCA2@verio.net>

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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.  

Well, if you execute the command, you'll find that the message goes away.
Go figure.

Doug White                               
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