Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!dasys1.UUCP!rpaul From: rpaul@dasys1.UUCP (Rod Paul) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: limiting resources Message-ID: <8909300346.AA09848@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 30 Sep 89 03:46:51 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 13 > 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.