Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!tiktok!meissner From: meissner@tiktok.dg.com (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: file too large Message-ID: <1226@xyzzy.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 89 21:44:03 GMT References: <2388@netcom.UUCP> Reply-To: meissner@tiktok.UUCP (Michael Meissner) Organization: Data General (Languages @ Research Triangle Park, NC.) Lines: 17 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. That really depends on the emacs implementation. GNU emacs for example, requires that all text, global data, and buffer space fit within 2^24 bytes. This is because the upper 8 bits are used to encode the type and are also used for garbage collection. -- Michael Meissner, Data General. Uucp: ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!meissner If compiles were much Internet: meissner@dg-rtp.DG.COM faster, when would we Old Internet: meissner%dg-rtp.DG.COM@relay.cs.net have time for netnews?