Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!keithe
From: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS vi on ATT 6386
Keywords: HELP
Message-ID: <4281@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 88 20:09:14 GMT
References: <5054@whuts.ATT.COM> <182@shuxd.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <182@shuxd.UUCP> starr@shuxd.UUCP (Michael L. Starr) writes:
>
>I run MKS toolkit on my 6386, too.  I have most of my files on my C: drive
>and when I edit files on my C: drive, it works fine.  I experenced
>problems when I would attempt to use vi on other drives, until I created
>a tmp directory at the root level on each drive.

This isn't necessary.  You can set an environment variable to point
to the ONE temporary directory to use for temporary files.  (I use a
ramdisk.)

	c:/dos/join h: c:/tmp	[join the ramdisk drive to C: as /tmp]
	set TMPDIR=c:tmp	[let vi use it]


keith