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From: berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Vi and alarm.
Keywords: Vi alarm
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Date: 20 Mar 91 21:02:27 GMT
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zawada@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Simpson) writes:

>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.

  It hates me too. I have received the message a couple of times,
but I am not certain why. If you get any e-mail regarding it, please
forward it to me, else I look for it on the net. Thanx.

-e.b.

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