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Subject: Re**2: two unix questions -- propriety of vi -r
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Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 16:39:57 EST
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Based on seconds of contemplation I would have 'vi -r file' set BOTH the
dirty and not-edited flags.  This would prevent you from exiting vi without
writing the file out somewhere and inhibit your writing it to file unless you
do "w!".

Bob Toxen
Stratus Computer, Marlboro, Mass.
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"unix is a subset of inextinguishable" (Concept stolen from Roy Smith.)