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From: gsteckel@vergil.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: vi "TMP file too large" error
Summary: systemwide file size limit set?
Keywords: vi memory
Message-ID: <4557@eastapps.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 91 19:57:56 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.183218.8617@convex.com> <1991Feb22.142239.16509@tygra.UUCP> <1991Feb26.152650.12458@bilver.uucp> <1991Feb27.012643.21189@tygra.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
"
"This is SCO Xenix 2.3.0 with development system.
"
In article <1991Feb27.012643.21189@tygra.UUCP> jpp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer) writes:
-
-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...

Does SCO have the Missed'em V file size limits installed?  If so, /etc/defaults
should contain a file which login reads to set the maximum size file a user can
write.  This limit would cause the error symptoms displayed.
	geoff steckel (gwes@wjh12.harvard.EDU)
			(...!husc6!wjh12!omnivore!gws)
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