jstanley@uafhp.uark.edu (Michael Stanley) (02/07/91)
Please someone help! :( I had my machine lock up WHILE using elvis
and now everytime I try to start it with an argument filename referring
to a file which ALREADY exists, it says that file is "busy". It says
this for every file on my hard disk. I use a 386SX IBM PC/AT clone.
I always load share into memory due to the fact that I have a 80meg
hard disk. I figure its a problem with share, but I have NO IDEA
what to do or where to go for help on this... Anyone? Please???
send help to
jstanley@uafhp.uark.edu
thanks! thanks! thanks!!!mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) (02/07/91)
In article <5975@uafhp.uark.edu> jstanley@uafhp.uark.edu (Michael Stanley) writes: > >Please someone help! :( I had my machine lock up WHILE using elvis >and now everytime I try to start it with an argument filename referring >to a file which ALREADY exists, it says that file is "busy". It says Just a shot in the dark: did you run chkdsk /f ? You might also look for a temp file. I've not use Elvis, but I *think* it uses a temp file, so you might need to erase that.... -- Mike Castle (Nexus) S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU (preferred) | RN ate my mcastle@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (unix mail-YEACH!)| .newsrc! Life is like a clock: You can work constantly, and be right | I am not all the time, or not work at all, and be right twice a day. | happy :-<
norlin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin) (02/07/91)
mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) writes: >In article <5975@uafhp.uark.edu> jstanley@uafhp.uark.edu (Michael Stanley) writes: >> >>Please someone help! :( I had my machine lock up WHILE using elvis >>and now everytime I try to start it with an argument filename referring >>to a file which ALREADY exists, it says that file is "busy". It says >Just a shot in the dark: did you run chkdsk /f ? >You might also look for a temp file. I've not use Elvis, but I *think* it uses >a temp file, so you might need to erase that.... Yes, Elvis uses a file in the directory /tmp, and you need to delete it to re-edit the file (or perhaps you can do vi -r, but I've never tried it).
fredch@starlite.intel.com (02/08/91)
Since I've answered this privately for several people, I'll post a msg
this time. This "feature" of elvis, along with a couple others, is one
of the warts on elvis. The solution is to look for where your temp files
are going and them remove "elv*".
Does it slightly irritate anyone else that elvis, on ^D (ctrl-D), does not
paint to the end of the line? Yucko when it's background is not your normal
background color. A REAL irritation is that the RE that I use in searches
("/" or "?") is not known by ":g//p" or any other ":g//". This necessary
behavior for compatibility with vi is missing.
--
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5200 NE Elam Young Prkwy, Hillsboro, OR 97124 | uunet!intelhf!starlite!fredch
Wisdom is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon it. Prov 3:18mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) (02/09/91)
In article <1991Feb7.165557.18939@intelhf.hf.intel.com> fredch@starlite.intel.com writes: <Does it slightly irritate anyone else that elvis, on ^D (ctrl-D), does not <paint to the end of the line? Yucko when it's background is not your normal <background color. ... This works fine on my system, but not when I have nnansi.sys installed. Could that be the problem here? -- ___Mark S. Lord__________________________________________ | ..uunet!bnrgate!mlord%bmerh724 | Climb Free Or Die (NH) | | MLORD@BNR.CA Ottawa, Ontario | Personal views only. | |________________________________|________________________|
ccastd2@prism.gatech.EDU (Dale Phurrough) (02/09/91)
mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes: >In article <1991Feb7.165557.18939@intelhf.hf.intel.com> fredch@starlite.intel.com writes: ><Does it slightly irritate anyone else that elvis, on ^D (ctrl-D), does not ><paint to the end of the line? Yucko when it's background is not your normal ><background color. ... >This works fine on my system, but not when I have nnansi.sys installed. >Could that be the problem here? >-- Nnansi.sys is the cause of many a problem. Vansi is the same. Face it... Standard ansi.sys is the ONLY one that works ALL the time with EVERYthing. One thing I have found that works is the program called "thefast" which speed's up screen writes. Try it out...it works well! -- Lamborghini Diablo ===----> the latest and fastest.... Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!ccastd2 Internet: ccastd2@prism.gatech.edu
ECSGRT@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin, Electronic Engineering) (02/09/91)
In article <1991Feb7.032310.28563@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, norlin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin) writes: > mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) writes: > >>In article <5975@uafhp.uark.edu> jstanley@uafhp.uark.edu (Michael Stanley) writes: >>> >>>Please someone help! :( I had my machine lock up WHILE using elvis >>>and now everytime I try to start it with an argument filename referring >>>to a file which ALREADY exists, it says that file is "busy". It says > >>Just a shot in the dark: did you run chkdsk /f ? > >>You might also look for a temp file. I've not use Elvis, but I *think* it uses >>a temp file, so you might need to erase that.... > > Yes, Elvis uses a file in the directory /tmp, and you need to delete it to > re-edit the file (or perhaps you can do vi -r, but I've never tried it). Dear Michael, Mike, Norman and all Elvis fans, 1. Michael: the problem occurs with my 21MB HD, also. 2. Mike and Norman: "vi -r" doesn't exist with Elvis 1.3 or 1.4, it is replaced by the program "virec", which you should have unpacked source and/or binary for, with Elvis. Running virec clears up the problem. Geoffrey Tobin ecsgrt@lu.latrobe.edu.au Electronic Engineering LaTrobe University Bundoora VIC 3083 Australia
davet@cbnewsj.att.com (Dave Tutelman) (02/11/91)
In article <21610@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccastd2@prism.gatech.EDU (Dale Phurrough) writes: > >Nnansi.sys is the cause of many a problem. Vansi is the same. Face it... >Standard ansi.sys is the ONLY one that works ALL the time with EVERYthing. Sorry, but definitely not true! Standard ANSI.SYS does NOT work with Stevie (and lots of other things, I'd suspect). It doesn't do the full set of ANSI escape sequences. I forget at the moment which one is missing from ANSI.SYS that Stevie uses. If you're having trouble with NNANSI, I recall a discussion a few months ago that concluded that you should try NNANSI without the "fast mode". The high-speed scrolling used by nnansi doesn't work with everything, but the normal-speed operation seems quite compatible. (Certainly known to work with Elvis.) Hope this helps. Dave
rgc@raybed2.msd.ray.com (RICK CARLE) (02/11/91)
In article <21610@hydra.gatech.EDU>, ccastd2@prism.gatech.EDU (Dale Phurrough) writes: > mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes: > >In article <1991Feb7.165557.18939@intelhf.hf.intel.com> fredch@starlite.intel.com writes: > ><Does it slightly irritate anyone else that elvis, on ^D (ctrl-D), does not > ><paint to the end of the line?... > >This works fine on my system, but not when I have nnansi.sys installed. > > Nnansi.sys is the cause of many a problem. Vansi is the same. Face it... > Standard ansi.sys is the ONLY one that works ALL the time with EVERYthing. I've tried nansi v3.0 with elvis and have had no problems. Also, it was previously posted here that presetting nnansi (v.8/90) to the slow mode would eliminate nnansi/elvis incompatibilities. (I haven't tried it yet.) Rick Carle ~
fredch@starlite.intel.com (02/12/91)
fgc>fredch@starlite.intel.com writes: fgc>Does it slightly irritate anyone else that elvis, on ^D (ctrl-D), does not fgc>paint to the end of the line? Yucko when it's background is not your normal fgc>background color. ... ml> mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes: ml> This works fine on my system, but not when I have nnansi.sys installed. ml> Could that be the problem here? dp> ccastd2@prism.gatech.EDU (Dale Phurrough) writes: dp> Nnansi.sys is the cause of many a problem. Vansi is the same. Face it... dp> Standard ansi.sys is the ONLY one that works ALL the time with EVERYthing. dp> One thing I have found that works is the program called "thefast" which dp> speed's up screen writes. Try it out...it works well! To follow-up: I run the ansi.sys that comes with DOS 3.3. I have nansi.sys and nnansi.sys but do not use them. If I find "thefast", I'll try it. -- Fred Christiansen, Intel, JF1-67 503-696-4214 | fredch@starlite.hf.intel.com 5200 NE Elam Young Prkwy, Hillsboro, OR 97124 | uunet!intelhf!starlite!fredch Wisdom is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon it. Prov 3:18
mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord) (02/12/91)
In article <21610@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccastd2@prism.gatech.EDU (Dale Phurrough) writes: > >Nnansi.sys is the cause of many a problem. Vansi is the same. Face it... >Standard ansi.sys is the ONLY one that works ALL the time with EVERYthing. >One thing I have found that works is the program called "thefast" which >speed's up screen writes. Try it out...it works well! How interesting. I guess there must be a lot of system variance on this one.. vansi is the ONLY one I have found that works with everything on MY system. Standard "ansi.sys" does not support reverse scrolling and some other goodies. -- ___Mark S. Lord__________________________________________ | ..uunet!bnrgate!mlord%bmerh724 | Climb Free Or Die (NH) | | MLORD@BNR.CA Ottawa, Ontario | Personal views only. | |________________________________|________________________|