On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:05:34PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > 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? > > I don't see anything in the Debian bug tracking system. You might try > finding as small a test case as you can and reporting it. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
I wrote a reply to Cliff Sarginson but forgot to cc to the list. The drift of it was that I felt that I'd used vi for a text formatted by a Microsoft word-processing program that wasn't a text file any more. Repeating (several times) the procedure that caused the errors, I found that vi froze while I was trying to remove the formatting stuff from the file and only segfaulted when I tried to recover the file with -r after a reboot. Is this a bug? I think I was using vi unlawfully, but shouldn't it have known this and refused to try? If it is something to report, how do I do it? Tell me the first step and I'll try to work it out from there? David > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
