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From: GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Virtual Size text editors
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Date: 22 Jan 90 05:01:17 GMT
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Does anyone here know of text editors or wordprocessors that will
edit a document larger than available memory?  For example, I batch downloaded
my email into one large file, and then found it was so large I had nothing
to edit it with.  I have found out from others that TextCraft, Ed, CygnusEd,
Excellence, WordPerfect, Scribble, will not open files larger than available
memory. Although,some of the wysiwyg ones like Ecellence will try for over
an hour to load the file, until you get to impatient and reboot.

The only one that worked was the AmigaDOS EDIT command.  It was very slow
though.  In comparison, MS-WORD handles files like this very easily, provided
 you have a decent hard disk (which I do).


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