Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu-cs!jbw From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: file too large Message-ID: <38480@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 19 Sep 89 23:20:22 GMT References: <2388@netcom.UUCP> <4246@buengc.BU.EDU> Sender: daemon@bu-cs.BU.EDU Followup-To: comp.editors Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department Lines: 19 In article fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes: | In article <2388@netcom.UUCP> beaulieu@netcom.UUCP (Bob Beaulieu) writes: | >I have a text file that is very large (26,000+ lines) and would like | >to break it down to 5-6 smaller files. Is there an easy way to handle | >this? I have tried vi but, it seems to hold 5000 lines in its buffer. | >The same goes for ed and ex. | | Try emacs(1). Handles files with up to 2^31 characters. I don't know the Emacs to which you are referring, but GNU Emacs will have problems with files greater than 2^23 characters long. You can still edit such a file, but GNU Emacs Lisp only supports signed integers with values up to 2^23, so many normal operations will produce incorrect results. -- Joe Wells jbw%bucsf.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu ...!harvard!bu-cs!bucsf!jbw