Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!alex
From: alex@mks.UUCP (Alex White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS vi bug
Summary: magic option...
Message-ID: <427@mks.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 14:26:44 GMT
References: <3706@killer.UUCP> <4014@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 7

In article <4014@ihlpf.ATT.COM>, lyourk@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Loran N. Yourk) writes:
	> to the problem with embedding carriage returns,  the carriage
	> returns are there but MKS vi doesn't display (or read) past the
	> first carriage return on the line (for that line only) the next
	> time you edit the file (or read it in as is the case for ex.rc).
Set the set option tosscr to notosscr.  If you do, it'll treat ^M
as any other character.