On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:43:05PM EST, Gregory Nowak wrote: > I was editing a file in vi when my slackware box crashed. Now, > whenever I open vi, I get the message: > > skipping 1 old session file Check /var/tmp. There is very likely a file to do with elvis, which is the name of the actual program, which vi is symbolically linked to. hth. Luke