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From: johnk@opel.COM (John Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: HEEEELLLPPP!!
Message-ID: <27@opel.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 90 11:06:20 GMT
References: <61556@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: johnk@opel.COM (John Kennedy)
Organization: Second Source, Inc., Annapolis, MD
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In article <61556@lanl.gov> larson@c3.lanl.gov (Theodore W. Larson) writes:
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-     Unfortunatly, this time I accidentally typed  :X
-and it asked for an encryption key.  Naturally, not knowing
-what this ment, I hit escape, and then typed :x and 
-saved and exited my file.  Imagine my suprise when I went to
-compile and realized my file was now ecrypted in some strange
-format!  So, now I have lost about three days of work and around
-2,000 lines of new code.  HOW DO I UNENCRYPT MY FILE??!?!?

If you have a good feel for what the resultant key was that got entered,
such as <ESC>, you can unencrypt by either using crypt(1) or vi -x.
The man pages have more detail.

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John Kennedy                     johnk@opel.COM
Second Source, Inc.
Annapolis, MD