I wish vi were more graceful when a file system is full

[George Kyriazis]

In article <5861 at medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf at cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes:
>Whenever I used to teach short courses on vi, I would always teach
>users that they could type ":preserve" if the disk filled up.  Assuming
>that the disk you are writing to is not also the one where the
>preserved file goes (usually the case), this works just dandy.
>
>Of course, if "preserve" fails, then you've got the same problem....
>

Hmm..  I just tried 'preserve' in a sample file.  It barfed with
'preserve failed', but immediately after I got mail about my preserved
file which I recovered with no problem. 

Do you have any idea what I got this error while everything else seemed fine?


  George Kyriazis
  kyriazis at turing.cs.rpi.edu
  kyriazis at ss0.cicg.rpi.edu
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