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- From: vannes@srzts304.alcatel.ch (Thomas van Nes)
- Subject: Re: ex/vi's tmp directory.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.073829.23273@srzts100.alcatel.ch>
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:38:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.085605.16032@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> pang@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Swee-Chee Pang) writes:
- >how does 1 change the "tmp" directory that ex/vci uses?
- >I have a sun4 system that miraculously started using
- >"/var/tmp" [which only root has write access to] and
- >so nobody can use vi/ec now. anyone has a Clue?
- >[both man/more etc works fine and uses /tmp if that matters]
- >
- create file $HOME/.exrc and put the line:
-
- set directory=/yourtmp
-
- in the file. 'yourtmp' = directory vi should use
-
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