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From: rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian)
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Subject: Re: DEC3100, vi, and .exrc
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Date: 2 Jan 90 15:32:13 GMT
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In article <9180@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
|In article <1990Jan1.020122.8785@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> On my SysV box, I can have a .exrc in my $HOME directory, and vi
|> picks it up no matter what my cwd happens to be.  Ultrix 3.1 on the
|> DEC3100 doesn't seem to want to do this -- it only finds the .exrc
|> if my cwd is ~me.  I've rtfm'd the best I can, but to no avail.
|> 
|> Any answers/suggestions/constructive flames? :-)
|
|Fill out an SPR 8-).
|
|Note that "mail" also screws up (or did a couple releases back) the same way -
|If you put "record=x" in your .mailrc, it's supposed be home directory relative
|but isn't.
|
I have no such problem with my DECstation 3100.   I suspect that both of you
have the EXINIT environment defined in your .cshrc or .login.  Get rid of
that and then vi will always read $HOME/.exrc regardless of the cwd.

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