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From: thomas@diku.dk (Thomas Nikolajsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Elvis
Keywords: Elvis, vi, help wont work!
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.084437.13412@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 3 Mar 91 08:44:37 GMT
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peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
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>> How do you get this program to run.

>Put the termcap file in S: under the name "termcap", set your TERM environment
>variable to "amiga" and type "elvis".

I had some problems, elvis wouldn't start, saying something like
 couldn't open tmp-file
It turned out that the elvis variable DIRECTORY had to be set
 setenv EXINIT DIR=df0:t
DIRECTORY defaults to ram:t, but the file-system ram-handler seems to have
an error (doesn't like the long names I think).

If you aren't using ram-handler for RAM: (system default), but maybe some RRD
(VD0: or the like), then the above shouldn't matter.

PS. I used the program snoopdos (posted in c.s.a) to guess the reason.

>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
><peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

thomas@diku.dk, Thomas Nikolajsen, Dept. of CS, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark