SCO Xenix "ex" limitations

[Stacy L. Millions]

In article <796 at riddle.UUCP>, andrew at riddle.UUCP (Andrew Beattie) writes:
> In article <58 at libove.UUCP> root at libove.UUCP (The Super User) writes:
> >
> >The SCO Xenix 2.2.1 /286 "ex" editor seems to have a low limit on the
> >maximum file size it can edit. I attempted to edit my pathsfile (about
> 
> Looks like you hit ulimit.  This prevents you creating files greater
> than 1Mb.  An ex tmp file can easily be twice as large as the file

In releas 2.2 SCO increased the default ulimit to something silly in
the giga byte range.

> Note that only root can increase ulimit :-(

A default ulimit can be set in the file /etc/defaults/login (I think that
is the name, one of the default files any way).

The only time I have seen the "tmp file to large" error message is when
I have run out of space on the root partition.

-stacy

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S. L. Millions                                            ..!uunet!mcl!stacy