vi "TMP file too large" error

[Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR]

In article <1991Feb26.152650.12458 at bilver.uucp> bill at bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
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"Well there must be different versions of SCO's vi, because I have one that
"I have had files larger than 2 megs that I have edited.  The Unix V.2.3
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"This is SCO Xenix 2.3.0 with development system.
"
In article <1991Feb27.012643.21189 at tygra.UUCP> jpp at tygra.UUCP (John Palmer) writes:
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-I have SCO Xenix 2.3.2 with dev. sys. I tried the history file thing
-and got "Temp file too large" at 10,305 lines, 518,144 characters. I
-would think that the "buggy" vi would have been in the older version 
-with the correction in the newer (2.3.2) version, but hey - SCO is 
-always full of suprizes...

Does SCO have the Missed'em V file size limits installed?  If so, /etc/defaults
should contain a file which login reads to set the maximum size file a user can
write.  This limit would cause the error symptoms displayed.
	geoff steckel (gwes at wjh12.harvard.EDU)
			(...!husc6!wjh12!omnivore!gws)
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