Losing my work in vi!

[Ron Flax]

In article <21107 at styx.UUCP> carlson at styx.UUCP (John Carlson) writes:
	I am always losing my work with ex/vi when the system goes down in the
	middle of an edit session.  Later, I type
	
	
	vi -r filename
	
	to restore the file.  Then I make changes a few changes, or if I just
	want to save it, I type
	
	ZZ  (vi)

	Guess what happens?  That's right, all of my changes are lost!  How
	about setting the 'modified' flag whenever a restore is done?

Which version of vi are you running?  Mine which is 3.9, of 2/9/83 does 
as you suggest.

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