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From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: More than 32k into a TextEdit window?
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Date: 15 Sep 89 15:28:49 GMT
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In article <15584@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle
R. Horton) writes:
> Another
> approach is the "sectioned blob," a block of text with a hole or two in
> the middle.  This should be only somewhat more difficult than the "big
> blob," but should afford acceptable performance if done right.

This is in fact the method that Capps' uses, as well as things like GNU Emacs.
It works pretty well, and gives you most of the benefits of having your
text in a (more or less) continuous stream, such as ease of searching and
so on.

Tastes great, less filling :-).

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Amanda Walker
amanda@intercon.com