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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
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Subject: Re: Files larger than available memory.
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Date: 24 Sep 90 21:58:28 GMT
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In article <1990Sep24.150432.25049@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> dailey@frith.uucp (Chris Dailey) writes:
>Why, yes.  What if the text to be inserted is greater than the space on
>the disk?

You write out a new file of the correct size.  No problem.

> There is no super-elegant way of doing this.  You'd have to
>allocate more disk space, link it in.  Sounds like a lot of
>system-dependent stuff to me.

Any efficient editor will have to be system dependent to some degree.
I can't just take the source to vi(1) and recompile on the Amiga.
(If only I could...)
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