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From: ECSGRT@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin, Electronic Engineering)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH ELVIS! :(
Message-ID: <5035@lure.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: 9 Feb 91 08:05:10 GMT
References: <5975@uafhp.uark.edu> <2110@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> <1991Feb7.032310.28563@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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In article <1991Feb7.032310.28563@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, norlin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin) writes:
> 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).

Dear Michael, Mike, Norman and all Elvis fans,

1.  Michael:  the problem occurs with my 21MB HD, also.
2.  Mike and Norman:  "vi -r" doesn't exist with Elvis 1.3 or 1.4,
      it is replaced by the program "virec", which you should have
      unpacked source and/or binary for, with Elvis.  Running virec
      clears up the problem.

Geoffrey Tobin            ecsgrt@lu.latrobe.edu.au
Electronic Engineering
LaTrobe University
Bundoora VIC 3083
Australia