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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: vi question Date: 28 Nov 1996 22:29:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <57l3ob$hr0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <57g04e$46b@newshost.lanl.gov> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby) wrote: > Is there a way to turn off the back-up feature of vi? Are you sure vi is the culprit? j@uriah 644% find /usr/src/contrib/nvi -type f | xargs fgrep .bak j@uriah 645% ...nothing found. The only editor i know of that uses .bak is uemacs. But of course, i don't know many editors either. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)