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Operating Systems Solaris Editor for working with large files Post 302887671 by rbatte1 on Monday 10th of February 2014 07:19:59 AM
Old 02-10-2014
What messages do you get from vi?

Is it a space issue?

If so, then this is because the temporary file it creates has to reside somewhere and the default is /var/tmp If that filesystem is not big enough then it will fail to open the file as you expect. You can re-direct the temporary file by editing your .exrc and including the following directive:-
Code:
set dir=/test/temp

.... or to wherever you have sufficient free space.

Of course, I've never tried to open such a huge file as a few hundred Mb, so this is not guaranteed to work!



I hope that it helps though.


Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

cdbs-edit-patch

CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)						CDBS Documentation						CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       cdbs-edit-patch - create or edit a CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch

SYNOPSIS

       cdbs-edit-patch patchname

DESCRIPTION

       cdbs-edit-patch	creates  or edits patches for use by the CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch system.	For more information about CDBS please see
       the documentation under /usr/share/doc/cdbs/.

       When patchname exists, cdbs-edit-patch will set up a temporary working source tree, apply all patches up to and including patchname in lex-
       icographic  order,  and	spawn  an  interactive shell for the developer.  The developer can then edit files in this working tree.  When the
       developer is done and exits the shell, cdbs-edit-patch updates patchname to reflect the changes made.  To abort the process from the inter-
       active shell, exit with a nonzero exit value.

       When patchname does not exist, cdbs-edit-patch will assume that a new patch should be created.  As with the above scenario, cdbs-edit-patch
       will first create a temporary working source tree and apply all patches up to the new patch in lexicographic  order.   When  the  shell	is
       quit, cdbs-edit-patch will create patchname.

AUTHOR

       CDBS  was  written  by Colin Walters and others.  cdbs-edit-patch was written by Martin Pitt.  This manual page was written by Peter Eisen-
       traut based on the dpatch-edit-patch(1) manual page.

SEE ALSO

       CDBS documentation in /usr/share/doc/cdbs/, /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk, dpatch-edit-patch(1), quilt(1)

Debian								    5 Feb 2006							CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)
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