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From: wu@spot.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Motorola, System V, vi question
Keywords: hard limits, file sizes
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Date: 3 Nov 88 20:24:54 GMT
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In article <2691@usceast.UUCP> dean@usceast.UUCP (Dean Karres) writes:
>Hi,
>  I am running release 3, version 4 of Motorola's System V. I have
>recently had occasion to edit a reasonably large ascii text file
>(540Kb +) and recieved the message "Tmp file too large". ...

The limit is 512K.  The thought of editing a file that large makes
me gag.  Surely it can and *should* be broken into more manageable
pieces.