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From: mwebb@maths.tcd.ie (Mark Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Stevie
Keywords: MSDOS, backup
Message-ID: <1990Mar26.203853.29738@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 26 Mar 90 20:38:53 GMT
Sender: mwebb@maths.tcd.ie (Mark Webb)
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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In the MSDOS version of Stevie setting the option ``backup'' (``bk'')
exerts odd behaviour.

If you already have a .BAK file, Stevie will not overwrite it when
you finish your edit. This means once a .BAK file has been created
it will be left around and _never_ get overwritten (unless you ``set nobk''
when it will be deleted). 

To get Stevie to always keep a backup of your last edit session
add the following line to FILEIO.C :

248 :	unlink(backup);			/* delete old .BAK file */
	rename(fname, backup);

The comments in the code suggest that this was what was intended.


This is a truely wonderful program for all ``vi'' freaks.


-Mark Webb				mwebb@maths.tcd.ie