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Mon Apr 6 04:02:28 UTC 2009

On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:51:09 Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 03:41pm on Sunday, April 05, 2009 (UK time), Garry T. 
Williams scrawled:
> >     $ dmesg|view -
> >     Vim: Reading from stdin...
> >     $
>
> And then I get:
>
> Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
> Vim: Error reading input, exiting...
> Vim: preserving files...
> Vim: Finished.

I suspect that is because you omitted the `-' parameter on the vim (or 
view) command.  See the manual page.

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