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From: behera@hoss.unl.edu (Siddharth Behera)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Help needed in elvis editor
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.155309.28624@hoss.unl.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 15:53:09 GMT
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	While using elvis editor in MINIX 1.5, suddenly the prompt appears
while the terminal is still in raw mode.  Hence unable to get any echo back on
the terminal.  I am able to logout by typeing "exit ^j" though nothing is 
visible on the terminal.  

	After this I can login again and work.  But the file which I was
working on is busy.  That is if I try to open the file by elvis I see a 
message appearing on the terminal "file xxx is busy", where xxx is the file
I was editing.  I get around this by remaning the file to some temporary file
and then copying it back to the old filename.  The new copy of the file is the
old version of the file.  Any changes made is lost.  If I delete the temporary
file then whenever I create a new file I get the message "file yyy is busy",
where yyy is a new file.  Rebooting is not helping.

	Can someone help me on this? A lot of disk space is wasted now.  

	I have a hp ES/12 286 PC AT.  It has a 40MB hard drive with one 3.5in
floppy drive.

Thanks.

Siddharth Behera
115, Ferguson Hall
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE -68588-0115.
email: behera@hoss.unl.edu

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Ok.    Bye.

Siddharth  Behera