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Subject: Re: vi question (on the message "ERROR")
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Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 09:01:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 19 09:01:05 1986
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Organization: Custom Software Systems; Natick, MA
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>After executing a shell command from within vi or after typing
>':set all' there is usually a line (perhaps in reverse) prompting
>'press return to continue'.  However on a couple of machines I
>have been on recently the prompt is 'ERROR'. Except for the 
>different prompt everything seems to be normal. Does anyone
>know what causes this? Is there a file missing? Is termcap/info
>not right?
>
>Rick Pasotto

VI keeps all of it's error messages in the file "/usr/lib/exVERSIONstrings".
If an error occurs when VI tries to read the appropriate message from the file
the default error message to be displayed is "ERROR".

If all messages (pattern not found, hit return to continue, etc) produce
the ERROR message, the strings file is probably missing.  If only some
of the messages cause this behavior, it is probably due to the version
of VI and the strings file not matching.

Joe Boykin
Custom Software Systems
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