Obscure Vi bug?

[Jon Ryshpan]

In article <798 at intelhf.hf.intel.com> fredch at starlite.hf.intel.com () writes:
>Has anyone else experienced this?  I have AT&T/Intel Unix V/386 on my box:
>
>Take a 50 line file (not sure if 50-line specific, but that's where I
>found it).  Go to 2 lines below the bottom line using the G command.
>For example, under TERM=xterm, go to line 25; under TERM=AT386 or
>TERM=vtpc, go to line 26.  Then type ^B.  It will beep.  Then, type j.
>Suddenly the current line will be copied onto line 1, and your file
>just got modified.

I see exactly the same thing on 386/ix Version 2.0.2.  Vi is Version
SVR3.1.  Also vi also often returns a nonzero status, despite the fact
that nothing seems to have gone wrong.


Many Thanks:	

Jonathan Ryshpan		<...!uunet!hitachi!jon>

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