Motorola, System V, vi question

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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 limit is 512K.  The thought of editing a file that large makes
me gag.  Surely it can and *should* be broken into more manageable
pieces.