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From: wjin@viking.cs.uh.edu (Woochang Jin)
Subject: Re: Editor that can handle BIG files wanted ...
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1991 04:15:03 GMT

In article <51460@ut-emx.uucp> dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren, esquire.) writes:
>I'm looking for an editor that can handle huge text files (like over a meg)
>Naturally, the file would have to be kept at least part on disk or extended/
>expanded memory.  QEdit is wonderful, but can only go up to about 500k.
>I need to edit the cwp uuencoded source to remove the junk.  Actually, if
>someone has a ms-dos filter that will do that, that would suffice too.

Even though there exist a few editors which can edit mega bytes of data,
I don't recommend them, because it will take more than 2 minutes to load
such a big file.  Usually it takes time even to move around and modify
the file. Also, it takes another more than 2 minutes to save the
file and exit.
So, what I would like to suggest is to use 'split' - 'edit' - 'cat' sequence.
I believe public domain versions of 'split' and 'cat' are available on
many DOS ftp sites. 
If you insist on editing big files, someone posted before that 'me'(?) can
do that. Jove can edit largest file among the free emacs-like editors.
For commercial versions, there are many, including ed from MS-DOS,
vi from MKS Tool kit, and so on.

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W. Jin
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