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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: vi question
Date: 1 Dec 1996 12:31:34 -0000
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>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?

>The only editor i know of that uses .bak is uemacs.  But of course, i
>don't know many editors either.

vim makes .bak files too - if you're unsing vim and not vi
you can set nobackup to stop it.

Is there an easy way to change the recovery message from nvi?
Lots of our users keep getting it, and they think they've done
something bad. ( Or do I just have to compile a new one it )

	David.