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From: raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu (Mauricio Tavares)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: vi temp files?
Date: 17 Jan 1996 17:27:45 GMT
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	From the following error message, 

% vi *.conf
log db: Permission denied.
% 

I think vi is not being able to write to its temp files.  Are they 
created in /tmp as opposite to /usr/tmp?

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| Mauricio Tavares          | "We will attack...                          |
| raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu |  ...under the cover of daylight!" Rimmer    |
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