Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!hscfvax!pavlov
From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Motorola, System V, vi question
Keywords: hard limits, file sizes
Message-ID: <659@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 88 05:59:09 GMT
References: <2691@usceast.UUCP> <4099@encore.UUCP>
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Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <4099@encore.UUCP>, boykin@multimax.Encore.COM (Joe Boykin) writes:
> 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 problem is not that you have run out of space in /tmp, but that VI
> has a compile-time limit on the maximum size the temporary file it uses
> can be.....

  One machine I worked on (admittedly some time ago) "corrected" the problem
  by truncating the file to fit within the limit.  This "feature" disappeared
  when the next release of the Sys 3-based op sys was installed....