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From: kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin Gowen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: editors for huge files
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.205844.19802@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 91 20:58:44 GMT
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Reply-To: kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin Gowen)
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In article <1991Jan28.201452.27323@athena.cs.uga.edu> boone@athena.cs.uga.edu (Roggie Boone) writes:
>I am looking for an ASCII editor that will let me edit huge files.
>I have a program file (21000+ lines) that is over 1 megabyte in size and
>I need to edit it, preferably on a PC.  I've tried Personal Editor, Blackbeard
>and Qedit but none of them load the entire file.  The program does not have to
>load all of the program at once (ie. it can use disk swapping as needed)
>although I do have 4 MB of RAM available.

I would guess that, for a file of that size, you would have to go commercial.
I am unaware of any PD or shareware product that can handle a 1 Meg file (of
course, now watch somebody pop in here and make a fool out of me :)  ).

I use Vedit by Greenview Software.  Paid $85 for it mail order.  I have used
it to edit files of the size you're talking about, and I can attest that it
works.

I hear that Brief is also good.  And there are many more out there on the 
market that I'm sure others on here can recommend.

>Roggie
>(boone@ahtena.cs.uga.edu)  <== respond here please

-kevin
kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu