[15370] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.0L: vi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Aug 11 02:57:56 1997
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 02:57:54 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Martin Kaminer <iguana@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[15367] in Athena Bugs"
> Two things. First of all, I notice that frequently if I've used
> shell escapes within vi, when I go to send the draft whatnow
> bombs with a 'problems with draft' message and I have to send the
> thing manually using send. This condition has improved somewhat
> recently (perhaps) but still happens a lot.
There is a fairly well-known problem that a lot of versions with vi
spuriously exit with an error status. This bug needs to be
investigated and reported to the OS vendors, but we're not
historically very good at reporting OS bugs in a timely fashion.
> Second, if I get thrown off a dialup session becuase of flaky
> phone lines, etc, vi no longer seems to save my work.
The reason is that /var/preserve doesn't have the proper permissions
for this feature to work, on the dialups. I seem to recall some
indication from the dialup maintainers that it may be intentional, but
I don't know for sure.
Sorry for the not very useful answer; hopefully I'll get back with
better information when it's not so late at night.
