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From: jpp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: vi "TMP file too large" error
Keywords: vi memory
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.012643.21189@tygra.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 91 01:26:43 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.183218.8617@convex.com> <1991Feb22.142239.16509@tygra.UUCP> <1991Feb26.152650.12458@bilver.uucp>
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In article <1991Feb26.152650.12458@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
"
"Well there must be different versions of SCO's vi, because I have one that
"I have had files larger than 2 megs that I have edited.  The Unix V.2.3
"from Esix  on another system I have dies at about 400k max.  As a matter of
"fact I copied the vi from SCO onto the Unix box  (I own them both).
"Just grabbed the history file and loaded in 50272 lines at 3,177,657 byte
"in size.   
"
"This is SCO Xenix 2.3.0 with development system.
"

I have SCO Xenix 2.3.2 with dev. sys. I tried the history file thing
and got "Temp file too large" at 10,305 lines, 518,144 characters. I
would think that the "buggy" vi would have been in the older version 
with the correction in the newer (2.3.2) version, but hey - SCO is 
always full of suprizes...