Martijn Bakker:

> You must be pressing control-D.

Yep. I can't use vi on the console because it doesn't show the cursor, for
some reason.

> that means you pressed the console's "done" button

Oops! I didn't know that. How embarrassing!

I'll try the echo >> idea.

Thanks,

Alphons

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Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, The Netherlands
Funny how they [women] always want to be friends after they rip
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