Robert_Toxen%anvil.UUCP@harvard.HARVARD.EDU (12/09/86)
Based on seconds of contemplation I would have 'vi -r file' set BOTH the dirty and not-edited flags. This would prevent you from exiting vi without writing the file out somewhere and inhibit your writing it to file unless you do "w!". Bob Toxen Stratus Computer, Marlboro, Mass. {ucbvax!ihnp4}!anvil!bob (Please use THIS address to reply.) "unix is a subset of inextinguishable" (Concept stolen from Roy Smith.)