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Old 12-23-2004
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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Alternatively, ask people to clean up tmp files - vi is usually aimed at /var/tmp by default. Your sysadmin should keep junk files to a minimum in places like : /var/tmp and /tmp just for this reason.