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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: 'Tmp file too large' in vi
Message-ID: <660@omen.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 23:51:09 GMT
References: <2677@mulga.oz>
Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Organization: Omen Technology Inc, Portland Oregon
Lines: 13
Keywords: why??

The 250k lines limit applies to Vaxen, etc.  On 286 flavors, the
actual limit corresponds to about 200k worth of file.  You can
increase it by running the fixhdr program to reduce the stack
allocation - but I needen't mention what happens when
you run out of stack space.

Don't feel too cheated - the vi on one of 32 bit *nix systems
won't handle files much larger than 200kb.

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf 
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