limiting resources
Rod Paul
rpaul at dasys1.UUCP
Sat Sep 30 13:46:51 AEST 1989
> Well, we have /tmp on a separate partition (the root partition) with normally
> about 8.5 MB of free space. But the downside of this is that I can not vi
> a one-megabyte ascii file! The temp file would be about 9 MB, I think!
>
> Does anyone know why vi creates such monster temp files? Can't this be
> fixed (by someone who has source)?
>
As someone from SGI pointed out at an earlier date put the following in
~/.exrc
set directory=/usr/tmp
This will get around the problem unitl you receive 3.2.
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