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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Save Tagged Mail _Fast_!
Summary: really vi status
Message-ID: <9357@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 25 Aug 89 14:57:24 GMT
References: <1989Aug23.121938.2967@DRD.Com> <2969@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <1989Aug23.225206.538@DSI.COM>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <1989Aug25.014846.16421@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:

>Its not that the editor left with a non zero status, although that
>is what actually happens.

>...  In three years this
>is the first discussion on this (I still don't know why vi has broken
>all of a sudden, why not three years ago).

Vi normally gives the number of errors made in editting commands as
its exit status.  Perhaps it has taken you 3 years to make a mistake
and give vi a bad command, or perhaps you have something wrong in
EXINIT or .exrc.

Les Mikesell