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From: zawada@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Simpson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Vi and alarm.
Keywords: Vi alarm
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Date: 19 Mar 91 14:13:22 GMT
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Does it gets hate me, or is there really something in it?

I've installed minix 1.5 so far on 3 DIFFERENT types of machine
which seem to like minix, two unknown clones, (386 and 286) and
an RM 386. Each one has accepted the kernel okay, and has run
all the tests O.K.

But....

Whenever I run elvis or vi, after a while, I get the message

Alarm clock......

Vi aborts, and mucks up the tty!

From what I can deduce vi is receiving an alarm clock signal
from somewhere, I'll be damned if I know where!

As this doesn't seem to be the machines I'm using, other
hardened vi users must be having the same problem.

Does anybody know why this happens, and a solution to it?

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