nolra@ux1.lbl.gov (Arlon Hunt) (02/15/90)
Hello Usenetters, I was running vi on our VMS system (I don't know who's the vendor - all I know is that it's not the TPU version) when some network problem interrupted the editing session. When I logged back on, and tried to do a 'vi -r fname', it gave me the error message: 'Can't Fork to execute recovery'. From the temporary space, I copied over the temporary files, which on VMS are called $E$X01105.;1 and $R$X01105.;1. What went wrong? What is forking? And of course, what can I do to recover the editing session (it would be difficult to reconstruct manually). Thanks.