Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!bcm!convex!tchrist From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: vi "TMP file too large" error Keywords: vi memory Message-ID: <1991Feb24.045931.568@convex.com> Date: 24 Feb 91 04:59:31 GMT References: <1991Feb21.183218.8617@convex.com> <1991Feb22.070855.24539@robobar.co.uk> Sender: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 18 From the keyboard of news@afit.af.mil: :As it turns out, ATT :*cripples* some of their versions of vi with a file size limit. :I assume it's to prevent resource conflicts on some of the smaller machines :they market. If that's so, then you would think that they would send me a :version with no limit or at least a much larger limit, right? Their answer: :"Sure, if you just send us $$$, we'll send you an *enhancement* version." I'm shocked and amazed. It brings to mind the punchline of an old joke: We're the phone company. We don't care -- we don't have to. --tom -- "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist