Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pegasus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!pegasus!hansen From: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (Tony L. Hansen) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.text Subject: Re: can vi/ex source beginning of text on startup? Message-ID: <1932@pegasus.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 17:53:17 EST Article-I.D.: pegasus.1932 Posted: Sat Dec 1 17:53:17 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 05:36:59 EST References: <31@politik.UUCP> <329@ukma.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 18 < I've noticed something similar when editing my sys file for readnews. < Vi gives a complaint along the lines of "net: bad command". One of < these days I'll track it down.... I believe that the pattern that vi/ex is looking for is ... [ve][ix]: ... meaning that any of vi:, ex:, ei: or vx: would signal the beginning of the command line. Since you exchange news with qusavx, you have a line in your sys file which begins with qusavx:net, hence the message about "net: bad command" from vi/ex. Tony Hansen pegasus!hansen