Re: Nvi saved the file language.dat

[Lars Knudsen <gandalf@revicon.com>]

Vittorio wrote:
> 
> As I've read in the net, I've configured the language for latex
> modifying language.dat file by hand decommenting Italian (I didn't use
> texconfig!).
> 
> Now, at each boot, I'm receiving a message like this:
> 
> Nvi recovery program [28/06/01 16:05 +0000]:
> > On Wed Jun 27 19:40:15 2001, the user root was editing a
> > file named /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
> > on the machine debian, when it was saved for recovery. You
> > can recover most, if not all, of the changes to this file
> > using the -r option to vi:
> >
> >       vi -r /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
> >
> 
> And issuing the following command:
> 
> dada@debian:/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config$ vi -r language.dat
> 
> No files named language.dat, readable by you, to recover
>
Try the vi -r language.dat as root (or have the sysadm do it if
its not your box)

Happy hacking,

\Gandalf