Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!vaxeline!vax.ftp.com!towfiq From: towfiq@FTP.COM (Mark Towfiq) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: vi "TMP file too large" error Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 16:14:48 GMT References: Sender: news@vaxeline.COM Reply-To: towfiq@FTP.COM Organization: FTP Software, Inc., Wakefield, MA Lines: 14 In-reply-to: news@afit.af.mil's message of 21 Feb 91 09:42:57 GMT In article news@afit.af.mil writes: I'm having problems editing large files over 300k with vi on our ATT 3B2. We're running System V3.3 Unix. When I try to edit a large file, vi reads in only a portion of the file and gives the "TMP file too large" error. I have plenty of disk space under /usr/tmp where the temp files are written and 48MB of RAM. I hate to say it, but perhaps it's time to switch to Emacs.... -- Mark Towfiq, FTP Software, Inc. towfiq@FTP.COM Work No.: +1 617 246 0900 Home No.: +1 617 488 2818 "The Earth is but One Country, and Mankind its Citizens" -- Baha'u'llah