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From: pmontgom@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: vi BUG!!!!
Message-ID: <4967@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 22:36:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 22:36:15 1987
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Organization: Unisys - System Development Group, Santa Monica
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Keywords: vi

In article <11323@hc.DSPO.GOV> thaeler@hc.DSPO.GOV (Bret K. Thaeler) writes:
>	% cp .login goo
>	% view goo
>	{inside vi}
>	:w>> goo
>you have just appended to a file you opened Read Only....

	Relatedly, if goo is read only and you do

		% vi goo
		(edits)
		ZZ

then it won't let you write there, even after you do a control-Z and a chmod.

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	Peter Montgomery        pmontgom@sdcrdcf.UUCP

Don't blame me for the crowded freeways - I don't drive.