on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:56:45AM +1000, Mark (mdevin@ozemail.com.au) wrote: > ray p wrote: > > > Do a locate filename to find the file. (This assumes you leave the > > machine on all night) Then do a vi -r filename. > > > > Ahh, that fixed it. I was doing vim -r filename and this wasn't > working. But vi -r filename did recover the file. > > It is weird how locate filename did not see the .swp file though. > Even after an updatedb. Note the difference between nvi and vim. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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