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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- 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: <1992Aug25.171935.8553@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Aug13.040731.2286@cs.mcgill.ca> <1992Aug14.232515.5824@cco.caltech.edu> <1440@frackit.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:19:35 GMT
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- In <1440@frackit.UUCP> dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) 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!
- >>
- >> I lost ALL my changes!!!!
-
- >Assuming this is not a great cosmic joke.... (seeing no smileys, he
- >stumbles forward..)
-
- >>I belive this to be a major problem with vi.
-
- >Only if you fail to RTFM before using it. Well, that's not exactly fair,
- >you MUST have read the manual or you wouldn't have known about :q!. I
- >suggest you go BACK to the manual and read up on ways to exit vi. You'll
- >see that you told vi to do just what it did, exit unconditionally
- >without saving anything.
-
- >Next time, try using the write-buffer-and-exit command, :wq
-
- >> I've heard lots of other programs do this too.
-
- >Only to those who fail to RTFM completely. This is what we call an
- >"Operator Malfunction: Failure to properly read and absorb the friggin'
- >docs :) "
-
- >(aside).... Where DO they come from.....
-
- Uh, I think this was exactly the point that the original poster was
- trying to make (with regard to the Great SmartDrive WriteBack
- Scandal). If they read the docs it TOLD them how it acted and what to
- do about it. If they tell you that if you pull the power before the
- cache is written that you are going to have problems and you DO pull
- power before the cache is written and you DO have problems, should you
- be surprised?
-
- [If you type q! to exit vi and it doesn't save your changes, should
- you be surprised?]
-
-
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- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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