Xref: utzoo comp.editors:2400 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:11942 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ra!it1 From: it1@ra.MsState.Edu (Tim Tsai) Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: editors for huge files Message-ID: Date: 29 Jan 91 06:30:15 GMT References: <1991Jan28.201452.27323@athena.cs.uga.edu> Followup-To: comp.editors Lines: 21 >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. te25.zip in simtel20 (under pd1:) will handle files of any size. It is *FAST*, even when you edit a file larger than memory. This is very similar to Qedit in feature and performance. WordPerfect's PE editor will handle files of any size too, but very slowly. -- I'd never cry if I did find a blue whale in my soup... Nor would I mind a porcupine inside a chicken coop. Yes life is fine when things combine, like ham in beef chow mein... But Lord this time I think I mind, they've put acid in my rain.