vi "TMP file too large" error
Tom Christiansen
tchrist at convex.COM
Sun Feb 24 15:59:31 AEST 1991
>From the keyboard of news at afit.af.mil:
:As it turns out, ATT
:*cripples* some of their versions of vi with a file size limit.
:I assume it's to prevent resource conflicts on some of the smaller machines
:they market. If that's so, then you would think that they would send me a
:version with no limit or at least a much larger limit, right? Their answer:
:"Sure, if you just send us $$$, we'll send you an *enhancement* version."
I'm shocked and amazed. It brings to mind the punchline of an old joke:
We're the phone company. We don't care -- we don't have to.
--tom
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"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn
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