aga (05/18/83)
I need to search this file regularly, also invloving movement around in the file, the best way I have found for this is VI. However the file is rather large and on our small system, SUN, the disk copying takes a fair amount of time. At least on the SUN, VI copies the file to /tmp/exnnnn. What I would like to do is place a copy of the file, in internal vi format, in /tmp/whatever and tell VI to use that file right off the bat so no copying is necessary. Does anyone know if this is possible? Would be able to make a simple mod to ex/vi to make it do this? Any suggestions? Alan G. Arndt stolaf!umn-cs!minn-ua!aga