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Subject: Re: /usr a misnomer?  (was File Syst
Message-ID: <264@herman.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 02:07:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 25 02:07:10 1987
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Summary: changing scratch directories in vi

In article <5695@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> The worst offenders (outside the 4BSD world) seem to be some text editors.

Well, i know that in vi(1), one can do a ":set directory=/usr/tmp" or 
EXINIT="set directory=/usr/tmp" to get around that problem.

derek