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In article <1226@incas.UUCP> zessel@incas.UUCP (Holger Zessel AG Nehmer) writes:
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|Hello netlanders !
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|Recently I used 'v' in less (Atari version 1) to call the editor (uEmacs 3.9e)
|and change a file. In ue I made the changes and left. But surprisingly
|there were no changes visible in less. Why ?!
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|A look in the directory gave an explanation. The file existed twice with
|the same name. Therefore less reads the first, ue edited the second.
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|I make GEMDOS responsible for this because of it's faulty file and 
|device descriptor handling while pexecing.
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|Does anybody have concrete explanations/workarounds ?
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|	Holger Zessel

A version of 'more' I made for the ST a while ago suffered from the
same problem as the one you just described: when vi was called (with
the 'v' key) two copies of the original file were left on exit.  More
did an Fopen() in readonly mode, and vi in readwrite (if I remember
well).
I think you're correct to say that GEMDOS does not handle (sic!) this
very well.  As a workaround you'll probably have to Fclose the file
first in your less program, and Fopen again and Fseek to the original
position after the edit.

Hope this helps, -
                        Leo.