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- From: napalm@ugcs.caltech.edu (Karen Bruner)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: recovering vi files after crashes
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 09:07:30 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Keywords: vi recover
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- After a machine crash, ex -r rarely gets back all files
- vi was editing at crash time. Is there a program that
- can convert the binary Ex* and Rx* files in the tmp
- directory back to the text files?
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- Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only
- one idea, -- and that was wrong.
- --Benjamin Disraeli
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