limiting resources

[Rod Paul]

> Well, we have /tmp on a separate partition (the root partition) with normally
> about 8.5 MB of free space.  But the downside of this is that I can not vi
> a one-megabyte ascii file!  The temp file would be about 9 MB, I think!
> 
> Does anyone know why vi creates such monster temp files?  Can't this be
> fixed (by someone who has source)?
> 

As someone from SGI pointed out at an earlier date put the following in
~/.exrc
	set directory=/usr/tmp

This will get around the problem unitl you receive 3.2.