Subject: alternate editor fills up /tmp

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 15:14:52 +0200 (MET DST)

Dear PUG (Pine User Group)

pine-3.91 / HP-UX 9.05

One of our users causes the following scenario several times:

He has set the feature enable-alternate-editor-implicitly, using vi.
Then he stops pine with CTRL Z and exits the host. Maybe (= I am sure 
;-) that he tries some other CTRL keys before.

After that /tmp is filled with tons of files Ex* which all belong to that 
user. If another user wants to invoke vi he can't because all available
Ex* belong to the other user.

Did somebody else experience this situation?

TIA for any hints
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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 22:37:17 +0800 (GMT)

> Did somebody else experience this situation?

This does *not* happen with pine 3.92 and Solaris.

I suggest you login as a user and use vi directly.  Then use ctrl-z to
suspend vi.  Check the /tmp directory for the name of the Ex file and
then exit the system.  (Don't you get a warning saying "suspended jobs"?)
Then reconnect to the system and see if the Ex file still exists.

Regards,

	Ed

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