DEC3100, vi, and .exrc
George Robbins
grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Mon Jan 1 18:52:59 AEST 1990
In article <1990Jan1.020122.8785 at lavaca.uh.edu> jet at karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>
>
> On my SysV box, I can have a .exrc in my $HOME directory, and vi
> picks it up no matter what my cwd happens to be. Ultrix 3.1 on the
> DEC3100 doesn't seem to want to do this -- it only finds the .exrc
> if my cwd is ~me. I've rtfm'd the best I can, but to no avail.
>
> Any answers/suggestions/constructive flames? :-)
Fill out an SPR 8-).
Note that "mail" also screws up (or did a couple releases back) the same way -
If you put "record=x" in your .mailrc, it's supposed be home directory relative
but isn't.
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