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From: saroff@jvncf.UUCP (Steve Saroff lac00001)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Two vi questions.
Keywords: vi
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Date: 8 Sep 89 14:51:52 GMT
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I have two questions.

1) Can you tell me why when I try to read in a file with the
":r" command, it barfs for long path names?

2) Is there any quick and dirty way of inserting a character(s) say
at the front of lines (e.g. quick commenting out of 20 lines of code)

Thanks


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