Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!sullivan
From: sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer (industry) follies
Summary: I don't use wq any more
Message-ID: <862@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 20:09:39 GMT
References: <5856@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <57438@ti-csl.CSNET> <741@etive.ed.ac.uk> <5269@fluke.COM>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <5269@fluke.COM>, kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
> [writes about deleting a file in the editor and then saving it]

Sounds like what happened to me.  In my CS10 class at UCSB we got to use
Unix but had to use ed.  It was the last program of the class, a pascal
program that duplicated pxref, as I recall.  The program was getting pretty
big and I had been up a long time with it (this was before they had to
impose terminal access time limits).  Well it just took forever to load
up with ed and one time I hit ^C before it finished because I wanted to
do something else.  It interrupted and I naturally did the vi-equivalent
of a :wq.  Since the file was only loaded up halfway I lost the bottom-half
of my program.  I was more than a little panicky, but I too had an old,
buggy copy to go from and I was able to just get it in on time.  Just
one of the freshman things.

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Michael Sullivan				{uunet|attmail}!vsi!sullivan
V-Systems, Inc. Santa Ana, CA			sullivan@vsi.com
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