vi: Tmp file too large - ULIMIT?

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Sat Feb 10 01:40:44 AEST 1990


In article <1235 at rsiatl.UUCP> jgd at rsiatl.UUCP (John G. De Armond) writes:
>In article <3P91VN6ccs at ficc.uu.net> karl at ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>
>>>>I cannot edit a large text file (~450K) using 'vi'.
>>>>It complains 'Tmp file too large' and switches to 'ed' mode.
>
>You obviously hit a ulimit :-)

No.  They had a problem with thier stock vi.  A little research has shown
that the system V R3.2 vi distributed by AT&T, intel and I belive ESIX has 
been compiled with very restricted limits on the number of lines in a file,
number of rows/cols of a display and other such stuff.

The version released in SV R3.1 has much more expansive limits.

A quick look at the 386/ix vi (using strings /usr/bin/vi | grep Version)
will show that it is running version 3.1.  Maybe version doesn't correspond
to Release, but there is a difference.   And I did try to edit a large
file with the vi from my Bell Tech SV R3.1 and it was able to edit large
files.



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