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Re: vi temporary files

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From: Hans Mulder
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:36
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In <1992Dec14.133348.7652@alw.nih.gov> weisen@alw.nih.gov (Neil Weisenfeld) writes:

>Or, move vi to vi.prog and write a shell script called vi that appends
>this to the EXINIT.

Don't do that.  If you set EXINIT, vi will ignore $HOME/.exrc.
Users will notice, and put alias vi=vi.prog in their .chsrc files.

>Come to think of it, Vi might listen to the env.
>variable TMPDIR, so you could try that, too.

Have you tried it?  Does it work with your version of vi?
Vi Version SVR3.1 doesn't listen to TMPDIR.

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Hope this helps,

Hans Mulder			hansm@cs.kun.nl
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