[Techtalk] Rescue data in a hung vi process?

[Terri Oda]

At 12:34 PM 08/05/02 -0400, you wrote:
>I accidentally typed some control character that hung vi.  Unfortunately,
>I had not saved my (two hours worth of) changes.  The /tmp file only
>contains the message I was replying to.

You tried typing "fg" to put vi in the foreground, right?  Usually when 
this happens to me in a program it's because I hit ^Z (suspend) and "fg" 
brings the process back to the foreground so I can exit it properly.

  Terri