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 Lines: 19 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. -- Michael Sullivan {uunet|attmail}!vsi!sullivan V-Systems, Inc. Santa Ana, CA sullivan@vsi.com whump, whump, whump, whump, whump, whump, whump, whump, whump, whump, whump