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From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo Karl Schuermann)
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Subject: Re: Virtual Size text editors
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Date: 22 Jan 90 06:36:15 GMT
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In article <9001220510.AA16544@jade.berkeley.edu> GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie) writes:
>
>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.

I'm fairly sure that WordPerfect WILL edit files larger than memory.  Its
restriction is diskspace where it stores overflow files.  It stores these
files in T:  Thus if you  ASSIGN T: RAM:  then WP is limited to RAM, but if
you assign it to a harddisk (floppies work but are limited to 880K and are
slow) you'll be able to edit files as large as the free space on that
device.

Udo Schuermann           //  "The power to destroy a thing is the
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