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From: ksand@mapper.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: vi on system v, sed on all unixs
Message-ID: <497@mapper.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 16:08:36 EST
Article-I.D.: mapper.497
Posted: Thu Apr  2 16:08:36 1987
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References: <356@gssc.UUCP>
Reply-To: ksand@mapper.UUCP (Kent Sandvik)
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Organization: UNISYS UNIX Support, Stockholm, SWEDEN
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Keywords: flame

In article <356@gssc.UUCP> jdm@gssc.UUCP (John D. Miller) writes:
>vi on system 5 is severely limited (in my opinion) by limiting the size of
>files that can be edited.  on bsd, i can vi a seemingly infinetly large
>file (there is *some* limit, of course), but a file of a few hundred K or
>so bugs out on system v with the complaint that the temp file is too large.

There is a virtual memory coded vi for NCR Tower/UNISYS 5000 series (SysV) -
you can edit files up to the max virtual memory limit of 14 Mb.

The only problem is to get it - it doesn't happen to exist in the 
installed op. system and thus is unsupported (sigh).

Kent Sandvik



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