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- From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- 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: <1992Aug30.072006.23801@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 07:20:06 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.040731.2286@cs.mcgill.ca> <rdippold.714755270@cancun> <1461@frackit.UUCP>
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- dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes:
-
- >In article <rdippold.714755270@cancun>, rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
- >> 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..)
-
- >> It is... it is... he was replying to a post which claimed that lazy
- >> writes had similar problems.
-
- >> >(aside).... Where DO they come from.....
- >>
- >> O, sad day when smileys are necessary.
-
- >Well, considering some of the winner questions posed to the net in the
- >past, yes, smileys ARE necessary. I honestly thought this was a serious
- >question from someone who had a problem easily solvable had he read the
- >manual.
-
- >Also considering the number of people who believed, as I did, that this
- >was a serious question, the damn thing should have been RINGED in
- >smilies :)
- >smileys :)
-
- As the author, I can assure you I did put in several pages of smileys
- following the post, but I pulled the plug on the Sun right after I finished
- editing it and hit <POST>. Why did I lose data anyways?
-
- As painful as it is:
-
- :-)
-
- ...oooooargh. I feel dirty inside.
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