Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bgsuvax!maner From: maner@bgsuvax.UUCP (Walter Maner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: **WIDE** Column Text Editor Message-ID: <5857@bgsuvax.UUCP> Date: 26 May 90 03:32:21 GMT References: <947@ashton.UUCP> Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh. Lines: 20 From article <947@ashton.UUCP>, by tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts): > In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: >>In article <1123.26482c59@ccvax.ucd.ie> h235_022@ccvax.ucd.ie (Gordon T Gopher at CCVAX) writes: >> >> Does anyone have any info about the existence of an editor which will handle >> **very** wide lines (600 columns and above) ? ? >> > I am a lone voice in a wilderness of BRIEF users, but I have been > using WordPerfect's P-Edit for four years. (It is bundled with the > WordPerfect library and is about 55K) Its line length limit is 64K, > it seems to have no limit on file size (I have opened c. 2 MEG files) > and features an instant HEX/ASCII display toggle. Lines in CompuView's VEDIT can be 8000 characters wide. -- InterNet maner@andy.bgsu.edu (129.1.1.2) | BGSU, Comp Science Dept UUCP ... ! osu-cis ! bgsuvax ! maner | Bowling Green, OH 43403 BITNet MANER@BGSUOPIE | 419/372-2337 Secretary Relays @relay.cs.net, @nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | FAX is available - call