The Great "Hard Return" Debate

[Alexander Sarras]

On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 14:21:48 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

> Wednesday, November 03, 1999, 1:27:31 PM, Alexander wrote:
> > DEC-Unix TrueCluster on two concurrently running alphas plus half a dozen
> > attached machines, gives a core dump about 60megs if you make it right. Can
> 
>     Feh, pittance.  I finally realized today that yesterday I was editing a
> file in vim and I had misjudged the size by one decimal place.  Yeah, that
> 71Mb file was really 712Mb.
> 
>     How's that for a core file?  :)
> 
Now, you just need a good explanation of HOW it happened. And even with a cable modem it's going to take time....
SaS
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