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From: btc20679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Elvis bug(s)
Summary: Crashes on file of size 0
Keywords: elvis bug hang filesize zero 0
Message-ID: <1990Jan12.051535.5449@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 90 05:15:35 GMT
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Elvis hangs my system when I try to edit a file of size 0.  Create a file with
touch, then vi it.  Now press Ctrl-F9, because you have to in order to get your
machine back.  (If you have more than one terminal you may be able to get on
and kill yourself from there, but I don't, so I dunno.)

Also, the %-meter that tells you how far down the file you are says (on my 
machine anyway) something like 32867726% all the time (no matter where you are
in the file).  (Not on a 0-length file, I mean on any file).

I am running an only-slightly-modified 1.3 and an unmodified (except for the
name chages for the linker) Elvis.

--
Ben Cox
b-cox2@uiuc.edu
University of Illinois
<<Harold Land, with a wave of his hand, said goodbye to all of that...>> -- Yes