can vi/ex source beginning of text on startup?

[Tony L. Hansen]

< I've noticed something similar when editing my sys file for readnews.
< Vi gives a complaint along the lines of "net: bad command".  One of
< these days I'll track it down....

I believe that the pattern that vi/ex is looking for is

...	[ve][ix]: ...

meaning that any of vi:, ex:, ei: or vx: would signal the beginning of the
command line. Since you exchange news with qusavx, you have a line in your
sys file which begins with

	qusavx:net,

hence the message about "net: bad command" from vi/ex.

					Tony Hansen
					pegasus!hansen