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From: tomg@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Thomas J. Gilg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: How to lose a file using HP-UX's vi !!!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <101950176@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 17:57:53 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> If you editing a file with vi under HP-UX and the disk on which that file 
> resides becomes full while you are in vi, vi won't tell you it can't write
> the file back out and it will then exit !!!!!!

How are you writing/exiting vi ?    I seem to recall that vi gives you some
short cuts for writing/exiting, but at the expense of safety.  I've run
into disk full situations before and the ":wq" way out has protected me.

Thomas Gilg
tomg@cv.hp.com