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From: paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: vi question
Message-ID: <112@devon.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 20:53:16 EST
Article-I.D.: devon.112
Posted: Wed Nov 19 20:53:16 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Nov-86 22:31:41 EST
References: <591@unccvax.UUCP>
Organization: Devon Computer Services, Allentown, PA
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Summary: need more files

In article <591@unccvax.UUCP>, fwp@unccvax.UUCP (Rick) writes:
> [ ... vi is ] prompting
> 'press return to continue'.  However on a couple of machines I
> have been on recently the prompt is 'ERROR'.
  [ ... ]
> Is there a file missing?

Yes.  The binary /usr/bin/vi (or /usr/ucb/vi, or whatever) gets most
(all?) of it's messages from ``/usr/lib/exX.Ystrings'' where ``X.Y''
is the version number of the vi program.  For instance, I have version
3.7 of vi, so the file is ``/usr/lib/ex3.7strings''.  That file is
probably missing from your system, hence the ERROR message (vi doesn't
know what else to say).

Hope this helps.

-Paul

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