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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: vi will not open large files
- Message-ID: <BtACnJ.6Hv@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Keywords: UNIX System V/386 Ver 3.2 Rel 2.3
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <1992Aug18.191708.7657@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:09:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.191708.7657@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> 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.
-
- It's a compiled-in limit in vi. If you have source you can probably
- fix it by changing a couple of #defines. Otherwise you can run
- GNU emacs in vip (vi emulation) mode.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
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