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  2. From: usmyrtle@mcs.drexel.edu (Steven Myrtle)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
  4. Subject: Re: ex/vi's tmp directory.
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug18.210632.23294@mcs.drexel.edu>
  6. Date: 18 Aug 92 21:06:32 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug18.085605.16032@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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  9. Organization: Drexel University
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  12. In article <1992Aug18.085605.16032@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> pang@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Swee-Chee Pang) writes:
  13. >how does 1 change the "tmp" directory that ex/vci uses?
  14.  
  15. Place the line "set directory=whatever" in $HOME/.exrc.  I had to do this once
  16. when I was editing a 60 meg. file and there wasn't enough space in /var/tmp for
  17. the backup copy.
  18.  
  19. >I have a sun4 system that miraculously started using
  20. >"/var/tmp" [which only root has write access to] and
  21. >so nobody can use vi/ec now. anyone has a Clue?
  22. >[both man/more etc works fine and uses /tmp if that matters]
  23.  
  24. You should ask your system administrator to check those permissions.  I've
  25. always seen /var/tmp with write permission for everyone.
  26.  
  27. - Steven (usmyrtle@mcs.drexel.edu)
  28.