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Re: vi temporary files

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From: Neil Weisenfeld
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:33
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Hans Mulder (hansm@cs.kun.nl) wrote:
: 
: Maybe you could ask the offending user to add the line
: 
: 	set directory=/their/home/directory
: 
: to the .exrc file in that directory.
: 
: --
: Hope this helps,
: 
: Hans Mulder			hansm@cs.kun.nl

Or, move vi to vi.prog and write a shell script called vi that appends
this to the EXINIT.  Come to think of it, Vi might listen to the env.
variable TMPDIR, so you could try that, too.

Regards,
Neil

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