On 12 Dec 2000, at 10:23, jeff wrote:

Date sent:      	Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:23:15 -0600 (CST)
From:           	jeff <jeff@omnia.praeclara.org>
To:             	Dave Chapman <dchapman@canwest.victoria.bc.ca>
Subject:        	Re: NetBSD 1.5 sysinst problem

> After you do the editing with vi, just hit
> esc  and then  
> :w!
> That will force-write the changes.
> Then I just hit esc again and then zz to write and quit.
> Alternately, after :w!  you can just :q  and that'll quit too.
> 
Thanks Jeff, but my problem is that vi won't even start.  Neither 
will ex (of course) or ed.  It seems to be that /tmp is read only.  
the permissions don't reflect this.... so I dunno....

  Thanks again,
   Dave Chapman


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