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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: file too large
Message-ID: <4246@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 19 Sep 89 22:05:13 GMT
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In article <FISCHER.89Sep17141429@rosser.iesd.auc.dk> 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.

And apparently allocates it all as an array at startup time.  8-)

				--Blair
				  "Well, that's how it _seems_."