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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
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Subject: Re: 386bsd -- HELP elvis dies on large input files (>2MB
Date: 28 Feb 1993 16:55:23 GMT
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In article <138@knobel.GUN.de> andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm) writes:
>
> My elvis dies on large files.
> I tried to edit a text of 2 MB size.
> Elvis says after a while
>	  error reading back from tmp file

This usually means there wasn't enough room for the temporary file.
Try making /var larger.

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