Return to BSD News archive
Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2385 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:57:03 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386bsd -- HELP elvis dies on large input files (>2MB Date: 28 Feb 1993 16:55:23 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1mqqprINNq7l@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <138@knobel.GUN.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu Keywords: elvis dies help problem In article <138@knobel.GUN.de> andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm) writes: > > My elvis dies on large files. > I tried to edit a text of 2 MB size. > Elvis says after a while > error reading back from tmp file This usually means there wasn't enough room for the temporary file. Try making /var larger. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!