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From: pete@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Bob Pete)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm 2.1: disappearing messages
Message-ID: <770001@hpmwrlp.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 89 19:28:12 GMT
References: <3387@ingr.com.>
Organization: HP Microwave Tech. - Santa Rosa, Ca.
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I have seen this all too often here but have been able to track it down to
a problem related to 'vi'.  Elm creates a temporary file of it's own, if you
write the contents of the buffer to a different file 'vi' sets the update
flag to true.  Now if you do a ZZ 'vi' thinks it has already updated the Elm
created temporary file and writes nothing to it.  I have been able to replicate
this both in and out of Elm using 'vi'.  The only fix I know of, no source
liscence, is to tell the users about the potential problem.

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Bob Pete

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