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[Tony Facca]

Tom Haapanen <mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watmath!maytag!vlsi!watale!tom at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>  writes:

> 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)?

A workaround might be to set the environment variable EXINIT to change the
default directory (/tmp) which vi uses when it starts up.  I have plenty of 
disk space available in a directory called /usr/tmp on a separate partition, 
so if I enter the commend:

      setenv EXINIT  'set directory=/usr/tmp'

from the C Shell, I can once again "vi" large files.  This doesn't explain
WHY vi creates such large temp files, but it might help someone.

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