Re: Where's the uncompile command when you need it?

-----Original Message----- From: Walt Hultgren <walt@rmy.emory.edu> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:35:16 -0500 To: Carlos Benjamin <benj@linuxmail.org> Subject: Re: Where's the uncompile command when you need it? > Carlos, > > Carlos Benjamin wrote: > > > > From: "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> > > > > > From: "Carlos Benjamin" <benj@linuxmail.org> > > > > > > > > > > Did you try vi -r filename? > > > > Right off the bat. No luck. > > You have probably tried this already, but there's an outside chance that > the temp file that the editor was using is still in its temp directory > even though "vi -r" can't make the connection between it and the file > name. So, you could manually scan that directory looking for the temp > file and maybe salvage something. I use vi under Solaris, and /var/tmp > (not /tmp) is the working directory there. I assume that's because > /var/tmp typically does not get cleaned out on reboots. > > Good luck, Thanks, Walt. There wasn't anything in /tmp as that was the second place I looked (grep'd for some of the most commonly used text in the file in case I found fragments) and the /var/tmp directory doesn't get cleared here, but the more recent files are two years old. I appreciate the tip though. If I hadn't known I sure would have scrambled all over myself taking a look. On a brighter note, I did manage to locate an 'accidental copy' from about one week ago. I don't know how it got there (yeah, it's got my name on it) but it was on a mapped drive on another machine in a DOS format (with the nifty ^M's at the end of every line). A little global replacement and it'll do. It'll have to. Thanks again, carlos > > Walt. > > -- > Walt Hultgren > Manager, Information Technology > Yerkes Research Center of Emory University > Mailto:walt@rmy.emory.edu -- 404-727-0648 > -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org <br> <a href=http://adserver-hk.outblaze.com/cgi-bin/nph-ad1?id=6&c=RANDOM>; <img src=http://adserver-hk.outblaze.com/cgi-bin/nph-img1?id=6&c=RANDOM border="0"></a> <br>