Motorola, System V, vi question

[G.Pavlov]

In article <4099 at encore.UUCP>, boykin at multimax.Encore.COM (Joe Boykin) writes:
> In article <2691 at usceast.UUCP> dean at usceast.UUCP (Dean Karres) writes:
> >Hi,
> >  I am running release 3, version 4 of Motorola's System V. I have
> >recently had occasion to edit a reasonably large ascii text file
> >(540Kb +) and recieved the message "Tmp file too large".......
> 
> The problem is not that you have run out of space in /tmp, but that VI
> has a compile-time limit on the maximum size the temporary file it uses
> can be.....

  One machine I worked on (admittedly some time ago) "corrected" the problem
  by truncating the file to fit within the limit.  This "feature" disappeared
  when the next release of the Sys 3-based op sys was installed....