Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Files larger than available memory. Message-ID: <6707@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 6 Oct 90 01:36:47 GMT References: <924@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> <1990Sep24.101616.20657@psuecl.bitnet> <14893@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 29 In article <14893@cbmvax.commodore.com> valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea) writes: A bunch of good stuff about useful VM applications, but the following is a bit stretched... > Now getting back to your example, how can I edit a 500 page book, if I don't > have virtual memory, and the editor does not have a built-in VM manager? Break it up into sections. > I'd > be forced to devide the book in section, and keep guessing at what page each > chapter starts. 1> list book Directory "dh0:book" Chapter1 901852 ----rw-d 20-Jun-90 17:21:50 Chapter2 878616 ----rw-d 20-Jun-90 17:21:50 Chapter3 1001184 ----rwed 03-Sep-90 14:05:13 ... > And what a nightmare to create an index! 1> cd book 1> nroff -mindex Chapter#? ; nroff -mindex is just nroff -me with a global divert to nil: for everything ; but the index... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .