RE: strange vim startup/loading error

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 16:45 -0400, Marc Wiatrowski wrote:

> There seems to be size limit, maybe number of lines.. characters
> bytes, not sure in reference to the swap file creation?  If I generate 
> a test file with on the RHEL 4 U3 box with vim 6.3.82 (RH 6.3.046-0.40E.7)
> 
> perl -e 'for (my $i=0; $i <= 3509; $i++) { print "This is just one line of text.\n" }' >
> test.txt
> 
> and then vim test.txt
> 
> I get:
> 
> E295: Read error in swap file
> E316: ml_get: cannot find line 1
> Hit ENTER or type command to continue
> 
> Can anyone else reproduce this?

No, I'm running Update 2, but vim-common is the same version you list.
I created your test.txt file and I have no problems opening it.

/Brian/

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