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Re: Obscure Vi bug?

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From: Felix Lee
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 1990 00:26
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I've seen a similar problem running vi under SunOS 4.1.  (SunOS 4.1 is
shipped with some System-V version of vi).  The display of lines gets
scrambled, the file isn't actually changed, ctrl-L redraws the screen
to exactly the same confused state, but strangely enough, ctrl-G will
fix the display.
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu
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