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From: kyriazis@rpics (George Kyriazis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: I wish vi were more graceful when a file system is full
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Date: 19 Jan 89 15:42:33 GMT
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In article <5861@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes:
>Whenever I used to teach short courses on vi, I would always teach
>users that they could type ":preserve" if the disk filled up.  Assuming
>that the disk you are writing to is not also the one where the
>preserved file goes (usually the case), this works just dandy.
>
>Of course, if "preserve" fails, then you've got the same problem....
>

Hmm..  I just tried 'preserve' in a sample file.  It barfed with
'preserve failed', but immediately after I got mail about my preserved
file which I recovered with no problem. 

Do you have any idea what I got this error while everything else seemed fine?


  George Kyriazis
  kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu
  kyriazis@ss0.cicg.rpi.edu
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