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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re^2: wq in vi (was: FILE descriptor <-> FILE pointers)
Keywords: FILE descriptors, FILE pointers, fdopen, fileno ...
Message-ID: <2794@solo8.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 22 Jun 89 22:03:09 GMT
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woolsey@nsc.nsc.com (Jeff Woolsey) writes:
\... ZZ is very dangerous if you
\used the -r flag on vi, and make no further changes.  It does NOT write
\out your file, AND it removes the file in /tmp.  I lost a two-hour
\editing session on a new file I was composing that way.  Never again!

SunOS vi handles this case OK. I'll add it to the Reference, though.
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