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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sun4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!visser From: visser@cs.vu.nl (Visser RL) Subject: Re: 386bsd -- HELP elvis dies on large input files (>2MB Message-ID: <C37sE2.J6C@cs.vu.nl> Keywords: elvis dies help problem Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam References: <138@knobel.GUN.de> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 14:32:24 GMT Lines: 14 andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm) writes: >Hello out there ! >My elvis dies on large files. >I tried to edit a text of 2 MB size. You can try recompiling it with BLKSIZE set to a larger value(must be a power of 2), the value of blocksize determines the maximum size of the temporary file. With BLKSIZE set to 1024 the maximum file that elvis can handle is 512K. Ron.