vi "TMP file too large" error

[Phil Eschallier]

In article <1991Feb27.012643.21189 at tygra.UUCP> jpp at tygra.UUCP (John Palmer) writes:
>In article <1991Feb26.152650.12458 at bilver.uucp> bill at bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
>
>I have SCO Xenix 2.3.2 with dev. sys. I tried the history file thing
>and got "Temp file too large" at 10,305 lines, 518,144 characters. I
>would think that the "buggy" vi would have been in the older version 
>with the correction in the newer (2.3.2) version, but hey - SCO is 
>always full of suprizes...

if you have sco xenix 2.3.+ for the 80386 you should have no problem using
vi on larger files -- however, there is a problem with the vi that comes
w/ the crypt suplement disk -- it restricts the size of the file.

my work around was to install the crypt disk then copy vi to vi.crypt --
i then re-installed ex/vi from the operating install disk.  this will allow
me to use a real vi but use vi.crypt when necessary.

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