fsfacca@LERC08.NAS.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca) (05/08/89)
>Urs Meyer, | meyer@ifi.unizh.ch [ @relay.cs.net ] writes: >Another problem: >Can somebody explain me, why vi needs a huge amount of space in /tmp? >e.g.: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 meyer 100000 Mar 17 10:54 foo > % vi foo > ... > -rw------- 1 meyer 835584 Mar 17 11:00 /tmp/Ex05442 > ^^^^^^!! I don't know WHY but I seem to remember a way to get around the fact the the default directory is /tmp I "think" its something like: setenv TMPDIR /other/tmp Then, when vi runs it uses the /other/tmp directory. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Facca | phone: 216-433-8318 NASA Lewis Research Center | Cleveland, Ohio 44135 | email: fsfacca@lerc08.nas.nasa.gov -----------------------------------------------------------------------------