On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:55:35 -0500 (EST) 
 DONVAN <golding@alpha.fdu.edu> wrote:

 > I was receiving is:
 > 	ex/vi: Error: Log file: Permission denied

Make sure /tmp and /var/tmp have permissions of 1777.

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