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From: heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Motorola, System V, vi question
Message-ID: <14174@mcdchg.chi.il.us>
Date: 7 Nov 88 23:06:49 GMT
References: <2691@usceast.UUCP> <4099@encore.UUCP>
Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us (Ron Heiby)
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Joe Boykin (boykin@multimax.UUCP) 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.
| 
| The default for non-VMUNIX is the ability to edit about a 256KB file;
| sometimes this is upped to 512KB.  Under VMUNIX, there is a max, but
| you won't reach it.

Under our System V/68 Release 3.0 Version 4, VMUNIX was not turned on.
Under our System V/68 Release 3.0 Version 5, VMUNIX *has* been turned on.
This should solve your problem.
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us	Moderator: comp.newprod
"There is a fine line between stupidity and cleverness." (This is Spinal Tap)