johnk@opel.COM (John Kennedy) (08/31/90)
In article <61556@lanl.gov> larson@c3.lanl.gov (Theodore W. Larson) writes:
-
- Unfortunatly, this time I accidentally typed :X
-and it asked for an encryption key. Naturally, not knowing
-what this ment, I hit escape, and then typed :x and
-saved and exited my file. Imagine my suprise when I went to
-compile and realized my file was now ecrypted in some strange
-format! So, now I have lost about three days of work and around
-2,000 lines of new code. HOW DO I UNENCRYPT MY FILE??!?!?
If you have a good feel for what the resultant key was that got entered,
such as <ESC>, you can unencrypt by either using crypt(1) or vi -x.
The man pages have more detail.
--
John Kennedy johnk@opel.COM
Second Source, Inc.
Annapolis, MD