Subject: bin/1056: Mail sent for recovering edit sessions mention nvi not vi
To: None <gnats-admin@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: None <abs@mono.city.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/16/1995 09:50:07
>Number: 1056
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Mail sent for recovering edit sessions mention nvi not vi
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue May 16 09:50:06 1995
>Originator: David Brownlee
>Organization:
Monochrome
>Release: May 95
>Environment:
System: NetBSD lapton 1.0A NetBSD 1.0A (LAPTON) #0: Mon May 8 04:07:22 PDT 1995 root@:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/LAPTON i386
>Description:
If a vi or ex session is interrupted the mail sent to the user
instructs them to use 'nvi' or 'nex' instead of 'vi' or 'ex'.
>How-To-Repeat:
Start to modify a file then kill the edit session & read the mail :)
>Fix:
*** common/recover.c.orig Thu May 11 19:04:00 1995
--- common/recover.c Thu May 11 19:04:02 1995
***************
*** 418,425 ****
" was editing a file named ", t, " on the machine ",
host, ", when it was saved for recovery. ",
"You can recover most, if not all, of the changes ",
! "to this file using the -r option to nex or nvi:\n\n",
! "\tnvi -r ", t);
if (len > sizeof(buf) - 1) {
lerr: msgq(sp, M_ERR, "recovery file buffer overrun");
goto err;
--- 418,425 ----
" was editing a file named ", t, " on the machine ",
host, ", when it was saved for recovery. ",
"You can recover most, if not all, of the changes ",
! "to this file using the -r option to ex or vi:\n\n",
! "\tvi -r ", t);
if (len > sizeof(buf) - 1) {
lerr: msgq(sp, M_ERR, "recovery file buffer overrun");
goto err;
>Audit-Trail:
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