Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hitachi!jon
From: jon@hitachi.uucp (Jon Ryshpan)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Obscure Vi bug?
Message-ID: <462@hitachi.uucp>
Date: 20 Jul 90 00:15:32 GMT
References: <798@intelhf.hf.intel.com>
Reply-To: jon@hitachi.UUCP (Jon Ryshpan)
Organization: Hitachi America - Semiconductor & IC Div.
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In article <798@intelhf.hf.intel.com> fredch@starlite.hf.intel.com () writes:
>Has anyone else experienced this?  I have AT&T/Intel Unix V/386 on my box:
>
>Take a 50 line file (not sure if 50-line specific, but that's where I
>found it).  Go to 2 lines below the bottom line using the G command.
>For example, under TERM=xterm, go to line 25; under TERM=AT386 or
>TERM=vtpc, go to line 26.  Then type ^B.  It will beep.  Then, type j.
>Suddenly the current line will be copied onto line 1, and your file
>just got modified.

I see exactly the same thing on 386/ix Version 2.0.2.  Vi is Version
SVR3.1.  Also vi also often returns a nonzero status, despite the fact
that nothing seems to have gone wrong.


Many Thanks:	

Jonathan Ryshpan		<...!uunet!hitachi!jon>

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