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From: norlin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH ELVIS! :(
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.032310.28563@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 03:23:10 GMT
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Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) writes:

>In article <5975@uafhp.uark.edu> jstanley@uafhp.uark.edu (Michael Stanley) writes:
>>
>>Please someone help!  :(  I had my machine lock up WHILE using elvis
>>and now everytime I try to start it with an argument filename referring
>>to a file which ALREADY exists, it says that file is "busy".  It says

>Just a shot in the dark:  did you run chkdsk /f  ?   

>You might also look for a temp file.  I've not use Elvis, but I *think* it uses
>a temp file, so you might need to erase that....

Yes, Elvis uses a file in the directory /tmp, and you need to delete it to
re-edit the file (or perhaps you can do vi -r, but I've never tried it).