vi problem (was: graphics problem on Personal Iris)
Tony Facca
fsfacca at LERC08.NAS.NASA.GOV
Tue May 9 00:03:45 AEST 1989
>Urs Meyer, | meyer at ifi.unizh.ch [ @relay.cs.net ] writes:
>Another problem:
>Can somebody explain me, why vi needs a huge amount of space in /tmp?
>e.g.:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 meyer 100000 Mar 17 10:54 foo
> % vi foo
> ...
> -rw------- 1 meyer 835584 Mar 17 11:00 /tmp/Ex05442
> ^^^^^^!!
I don't know WHY but I seem to remember a way to get around the fact the
the default directory is /tmp I "think" its something like:
setenv TMPDIR /other/tmp
Then, when vi runs it uses the /other/tmp directory.
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