Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tut!ph62303 From: ph62303@tut.fi (Hartoma Petri Juhani) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: Text editor. Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 11:39:24 GMT References: <1574@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> Sender: news@funet.fi (#News ) Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 9 In-Reply-To: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu's message of 31 Oct 90 02:48:58 GMT 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. Washington Editor in SIMTEL20 is worth trying and inexpensive alternative to WP and other full-blown "editors". It's in as wed410.arc.