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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: vi question
Date: 28 Nov 1996 22:29:31 GMT
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crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby) wrote:

> Is there a way to turn off the back-up feature of vi?

Are you sure vi is the culprit?

j@uriah 644% find /usr/src/contrib/nvi -type f | xargs fgrep .bak
j@uriah 645% 

...nothing found.

The only editor i know of that uses .bak is uemacs.  But of course, i
don't know many editors either.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)