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From: GBOPOLY1@NUSVM.BITNET (fclim)
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Subject: Re: VI troubles with SR10.1
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Date: 18 Apr 89 07:40:40 GMT
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Hi,
     in article <6244@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>, Mike Markley
(markley%celece.ucsd.edu.uucp@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu) writes:
>I hope someone can help me with this.  I created a .exrc file
>in my home directory.  All it does is sets autoindent and
>tabstops to 4.  If I run vi in my home directory it works fine
>but if I move to another directory autoindent and tabstops
>don't get set.  Is this a feature or a bug?  According to the
>man pages vi uses ~/.exrc NOT .exrc.  I have rwx for everybody
>on the file so even though that should not be a problem I did
>eliminate the possiblity.

I am not sure as I do not have SR10.1, but I'll put my two cents in.
At 9.7, I had problems with .cshrc.  First, I make sure .chsrc belongs
to me by using
        /com/edacl :.cshrc -a fclim -owner
(I don't trust Domain/IX chmod or chown, so I use /com/edacl).  Still, it
doesn't
work; my csh prompt remain a %.  Then, I check /etc/passwd and I found
myself not listed.  So I run
       /etc/crpasswd
and presto, everytime I logs in, the csh prompt became what I wanted it
to be; meaning .cshrc was read by csh.

Point is, make sure .exrc belongs to you; it doesn't matter if you give
rwx to the world.  If a
       ls -l .exrc
reveals a -1 for a userid, then run chown or /com/edacl.  If it reveals
a non-negative number for a userid instead of a nice name like fclim,
then do a
       grep your_userid /etc/passwd
If this returns error, then ask your system adminstrator to run
       /etc/crpasswd
You may have to ask your adminstrator to do the chown (edacl) as well.

Hope this will help you on SR10.1.  Let me know if it does.


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