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- From: backman@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Bruce A Backman)
- Subject: Re: WARNING!!!! major problem with vi and possibly every other app around! (was: help I don't understand write caches like smartdrive 3.1)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.174451.11740@uwm.edu>
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- References: <1992Aug14.141659.328@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <1992Aug14.232515.5824@cco.caltech.edu> <1992Aug15.074707.24279@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:44:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.074707.24279@leland.Stanford.EDU> gsroka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Sroka) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug14.232515.5824@cco.caltech.edu> nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu) writes:
- >>The other day I was editing a file with vi and I quit using :q!
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- >>I lost ALL my changes!!!! I belive this to be a major problem with vi.
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- >>I've heard lots of other programs do this too.
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- >You are either new to vi or left your terminal unattended. (I've heard
- >about those crazy Caltech practical jokers).
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- #include <HUMOR.H>
- Those you who feel the urge to "help" the poor vi user
- should first review the recent postings warning about
- the SmartDrive program which comes with Windows 3.1.
- The tile is nearly the same, the phrases nearly identical.
- CAN YOU SAY SATIRE? I, personally found it somewhat
- humerous, but maybe that's just too much exposure to
- CRT radiation.
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- Bruce Backman
- My opinions are MINE, ALL MINE! ahahahaha!!
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