'vi +/mail .login' not on SUN ?? - (nf)

[Pete Peterson]

In article <38400002 at pbinfo.UUCP> michael at pbinfo.UUCP writes:
	>
	>	What is wrong?
	>
	>I tried on a SUN 3 to invoke the 'vi' the command
	>	vi +/mail .login
	>which should (I think) bring up 'vi' with my .login and place
	>me to the first occurrence of the word "mail". Surprise!! It
	>said something like 'hit bottom without finding matching pattern',

It works on my Sun 2 running "Sun Unix Version 4.2 Release 3.0" and
vi/ex "Version 3.7, 6/10/83".

		pete peterson