[Gllug] VI gone weird

Pete Ryland pdr at pdr.cx
Wed Jan 16 15:24:23 UTC 2002


On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:47:09PM +0000, Stephen Harker wrote:
> What does this mean? Every time I close a file in vi it pops up this 
> message. ????
> 
> viminfo: Illegal starting char in line: ^D1F0
> viminfo: Illegal starting char in line: ^H^_!p~D½¤ð^DÏ ^D4@@
> viminfo: Illegal starting char in line: ^D
> Hit ENTER or type command to continue
> 
> Hint: It only started doing it after a kernel freeze and a hard reset 
> so I am assuming there is a file corruption somewhere....

Have you checked the vimrc file(s)?

Pete

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