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From: roger@wrq.com (Roger Fulton)
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Subject: Re: editors for huge files
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Date: 28 Jan 91 22:06:05 GMT
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In article <1991Jan28.205844.19802@ariel.unm.edu> kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin Gowen) writes:
>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 :)  ).
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OK :-).

wuarchive.wustl.edu has mirrors/msdos/editors/sedt40pc.arc which will
do files > 1M.  This is a great editor if you have a DEC EDT background
(I do).


Roger Fulton
roger@wrq.com














































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