Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!research.canon.oz.au!andy From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: editors for huge files Message-ID: <1991Jan29.223323.10672@research.canon.oz.au> Date: 29 Jan 91 22:33:23 GMT References: <1991Jan28.201452.27323@athena.cs.uga.edu> Sender: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) Reply-To: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia Lines: 12 I once edited a 16Mb + file using Brief ... seemed to handle it okay although a little slow. Then I exited and the (full) disk's FAT was garbage. I'm not blaming Brief (I'd sooner blame Messy-DOS) but it was anoying (had to restore the FAT from the backup copy ... one useful thing that MS-DOS does). Andy. -- Andrew Newman, Software Engineer. | Net: andy@research.canon.oz.au Canon Information Systems Research Australia | Phone: +61 2 805 2914 P.O. Box 313 North Ryde, NSW, Australia 2113 | Fax: +61 2 805 2929