Re: segfault in vi
Well, you have found a bug I would guess. That is "why"...
Maybe a buffer over-run..too long a line ?
Report it..
Cliff
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:01:58AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> I only know that I type 'vi' on the command line and - I've
> just checked - 'which vi' tells me '/usr/bin/vi' but, hang on,
> 'ls -l /usr/bin/vi' tells me it's a symlink to
> /etc/alternatives/vi and, hang on another sec, that is a symlink
> to /usr/bin/nvi, which seems to be the final destination at
> 315248 bytes. So let me rephrase my question. Does anyone
> know why nvi baulks at removing formatting mumbo-jumbo from
> WordPad files?
>
> David
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:30:57PM -0400, dman wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:40:50AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> > | I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad
> > | document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. Is there a
> > | known reason for this?
> >
> > Uhh, vi is and copyrighted by AT&T and I don't think it is maintained
> > anymore. You don't have it. Now which vi *clone* do you have
> > installed? nvi? elvis? vim? I like vim the best -- it has a lot of
> > really useful features and is very stable, not to mention extremely
> > cross-platform. Try 'antiword' though -- it is really cool at
> > rendering Word docs as plain text.
> >
> > HTH,
> > -D
> >
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