Re: Vi bug

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From: fawcett
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1989 19:15

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In article <1aEbQ97kCJ1010nFS0o@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, kucharsk@uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski) writes:
> In article <722@sbsvax.UUCP> greim@sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim) writes:
>  >In article <1001@philmds.UUCP>, leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>  >< Create a file with at least one line that wraps (depending on your
>  >< terminal / window, probably a line of over 80 chars).
>  >< 
>  >< Now type '/' (search) followed by windowsize+1 dots (so probably 81).
>  >< 
>  >It is a bug. I had it on 4.3BSD, SUN OS and Ultrix.
> As a side note, it IS still present in SunOS 4.0.
Funny.  I have a Sun 3/110 running SunOS 4.0.1 and I had no problems.  If I
put in fewer dots than there were in the wrapped-around line, I got the
next line.  If I put in more that were on any line, I got "pattern not
found".  Have you got a :set variable set??


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From: fawcett@steven.COM (fawcett)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc
Subject: Re: Vi bug
Summary: I have SunOS 4.0.1 and it worked for me...
Message-ID: <18@steven.COM>
Date: 20 Apr 89 19:15:25 GMT
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