My experience has been that vi is happiest on MPE when editing bytestream files.

Whenever vi complains to me about being out of space, it has always been when I
was trying to edit an MPE fixed-ASCII file.  I suspect this is likely related
to how the bytestream emulator deals with trailing spaces in ASCII record files.

- Mark B.

John Pitman wrote:
> Lately I have seen some problems using vi in mpe space……sometimes I do :wq
> and I get an error message re out of space (wrong – 50 Mill sectors free),
> so I save to a new file name, get out, do some renames, I’m ok.
> Today, I get an error, try to do the rename, refuses to do it –
> :purge saa100
> BAD VARIABLE BLOCK STRUCTURE  (FSERR 105)
> Unable to purge file "SAA100.JPC.STOCK2K". (CIERR 384)
>
> Anybody BTDT?
>
> I had to go to posix space to be able to purge the file…..
>
> jp
>
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