Re: Nvi recovery

[Mark <mdevin@ozemail.com.au>]

Jeroen Valcke wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This annoys me a bit. Everytime I reboot, Nvi recovers two text files.
> These files are almost a year old now. I don't need them anymore. Why does
> Nvi keep recovering these files? I even removed Nvi and I still get these
> recovery mails in my inbox. Does anybody know how to disable this?
>

I think it is caused by a swap file still existing.
Typing vi -r should list the swap files.  Then you can just delete them or
recover them with vi -r filename

cheers.

Mark.