Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!diemen!tasman!johnm From: johnm@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (John B. Miezitis) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: elvis problems and a warning Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 00:54:38 GMT References: <814@iss-rb.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Sender: news@diemen.utas.edu.au Lines: 45 davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) writes: >I tried out the vi clone 'elvis' last night and want to warn people >about some potential problems they might encounter. I should say that >[...] >The problems: > 1) First and foremost, when executed with a filename on the command > line my handy-dandy Norton Disk Monitor pops up and says: > "WARNING: Disk write attempted to system area. Continue, Disallow, ...?" My mace vaccine which is supposed to do the same job has not complained. I also am running under 4.01. You have me worried now is it my mace which isn't working or do you have a funny copy of elvis? I have obtained docs and source from uwasa.fi and a quick look at the source reveals nothing sinister. > 4) Do you ever run Windows? Forget 'elvis'. Windows puts the following > in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: > set TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP > 'elvis' absolutely will not run with that in your environment. As > far as I can tell, the only thing it will allow TEMP to be set to > is '.'. Elvis will look at environment variable TMP first and then TEMP if TMP is set then it will ignore TEMP. >I really hope the author will someday get these problems straightened >out (I don't know who he is since there was no documentation). There The author is:- Steve Kirkendall kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu as read from the readme accompanying the source. Can't help with your other problems but I find elvis to be good enough to persist with. Cheers.. _______________________________________________________________________________ John. B. Miezitis. University of Tasmania Computing Centre email: johnm@diemen.cc.utas.edu.au | Belgium man Belgium!!! _______________________________________________________________________________