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4 total messages Started by Rick Tue, 18 Nov 1986 03:55

#3112

Author: Rick
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1986 03:55

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After executing a shell command from within vi or after typing
':set all' there is usually a line (perhaps in reverse) prompting
'press return to continue'.  However on a couple of machines I
have been on recently the prompt is 'ERROR'. Except for the 
different prompt everything seems to be normal. Does anyone
know what causes this? Is there a file missing? Is termcap/info
not right?

Rick Pasotto

Re: vi question

#3119

Author: Jim Webb
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1986 22:15

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> After executing a shell command from within vi or after typing
> ':set all' there is usually a line (perhaps in reverse) prompting
> 'press return to continue'.  However on a couple of machines I
> have been on recently the prompt is 'ERROR'. Except for the 
> different prompt everything seems to be normal. Does anyone
> know what causes this? Is there a file missing? Is termcap/info
> not right?

This usually means that the "strings" file is messed up or not in
existence.   This file resides in /usr/lib/ex*strings where * is
the version number of vi, here it is ex3.9strings...
-- 
Jim Webb             "Out of phase--get help"          ...!ihnp4!hropus!jrw
		"Use the Force, Read the Source"

Re: vi question

#3118

Author: Adam V. Reed
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1986 23:53

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> After executing a shell command from within vi or after typing
> ':set all' there is usually a line (perhaps in reverse) prompting
> 'press return to continue'.  However on a couple of machines I
> have been on recently the prompt is 'ERROR'. Except for the 
> different prompt everything seems to be normal. Does anyone
> know what causes this? Is there a file missing? Is termcap/info
> not right?
> 
> Rick Pasotto

Yes, this is a symptom of file /usr/lib/exstrings missing or having the
wrong premissions. If the permissions are OK, see the makefile on how to
re-generate the missing file.
				Adam Reed (mtund!adam)

Re: vi question

#3121

Author: Paul Sutcliffe Jr.
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1986 01:53

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In article <591@unccvax.UUCP>, fwp@unccvax.UUCP (Rick) writes:
> [ ... vi is ] prompting
> 'press return to continue'.  However on a couple of machines I
> have been on recently the prompt is 'ERROR'.
  [ ... ]
> Is there a file missing?

Yes.  The binary /usr/bin/vi (or /usr/ucb/vi, or whatever) gets most
(all?) of it's messages from ``/usr/lib/exX.Ystrings'' where ``X.Y''
is the version number of the vi program.  For instance, I have version
3.7 of vi, so the file is ``/usr/lib/ex3.7strings''.  That file is
probably missing from your system, hence the ERROR message (vi doesn't
know what else to say).

Hope this helps.

-Paul

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