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From: ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ed Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Text editor.
Message-ID: <90305.093707ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 1 Nov 90 17:37:07 GMT
References: <1574@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> <2366@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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In article <1574@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle)
writes:
>Does anyone know of a good text editor that can handle VERY large files (on
>the order of 1 to 5Meg (don't ask why :-))?  I know of the serveral ftp sites,
>but I can't tell from the descriptions given in the index files at simtel20
>if any there can do spill files and I didn't want to have to ftp ALL of them
just to try them out.  Right now I'm stuck using EDLIN which is rather slow.
>I've tried PCTOOLS editor in PCSHELL, but that's not much better.

In the DOS environment KEDIT (Mansfield Software) will use up to 4M of EMS
(LIM >= 3.2).