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From: nguyen@buckaroo.ICS.UCI.EDU (Thieu Nguyen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Questions in vi
Message-ID: <9012131232.aa08361@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: 13 Dec 90 20:34:57 GMT
Reply-To: nguyen@ICS.UCI.EDU
Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS
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I am running the vi editor under a 386 based platform, with SCO Unix System V,
v3.2.2.  We deal with Megabyte size ASCII databases (30Mb to 90Mb) and have
a need to edit very large files.  At the present time vi hangs trying to open
the file.  Is there a way to increase buffer size, or is vi limited to editing
small files?  Are there any other Unix editors that can handle large files?