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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!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: 1 Mar 1993 03:25:43 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1mrvnnINN6jh@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <138@knobel.GUN.de> <1mqqprINNq7l@life.ai.mit.edu> <1993Feb28.235844.2747@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu Keywords: elvis dies help problem In article <1993Feb28.235844.2747@netcom.com> alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) writes: } } No, this is a limitation of elvis. From the elvis-1.6 document, } cflags.ms: } } The value of BLKSIZE must be a power of two. Every time you double } BLKSIZE, you quadruple the size of a text file that [elvis] can handle, } [...] } The default value is 2048, which allows you to edit files that } are nearly 2 megabytes long. } [...] } BLKSIZE should be either 256, 512, 1024, or 2048. Values } other than these can lead to strange behaviour. Ugh. I actually tried this, but had forgotten that I switched back to using real vi some time ago. B-) -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!