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- From: dwj@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Daniel W. James)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: vi will not open large files
- Keywords: UNIX System V/386 Ver 3.2 Rel 2.3
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.164613.18141@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 16:46:13 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.191708.7657@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix
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- gwt@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (geoffrey.c.woods) writes:
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- >This question probably has a very simple solution, but I can't seem to
- >figure it out. The problem is that vi will not create a /tmp file larger
- >than 518144 characters, so I cannot edit files over approximately 300K.
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- I have this problem quite often. The simplest solution I can think of is
- to "split" the file into smaller pieces, edit the pieces, and then "cat"
- them back together.
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