vi "TMP file too large" error
joseph.d.balshi
basil at cbnewsm.att.com
Fri Feb 22 06:44:31 AEST 1991
In article <TOWFIQ.91Feb21111448 at babyoil.FTP.COM> towfiq at FTP.COM writes:
>In article <jsrobins.667129377 at galaxy.afit.af.mil> news at afit.af.mil writes:
>
> I'm having problems editing large files over 300k with vi on our ATT 3B2.
> We're running System V3.3 Unix. When I try to edit a large file, vi reads
> in only a portion of the file and gives the "TMP file too large" error.
> I have plenty of disk space under /usr/tmp where the temp files are written
> and 48MB of RAM.
>
Try using split. This will break the file up into smaller manageable files
that vi will be able to edit.
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