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From: scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
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Subject: Re: editors for huge files
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Date: 30 Jan 91 14:58:24 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 :)  ).

Well, funny you should say that, but Jove 4.14 (freeware, source
provided, should be on SIMTEL20 I think) is said to handle files up to
25000 lines with no file-size limitation, running on a 640k PC. Actually the
number of lines is dependent on compile-time options which allow you to
build compact versions. The file is kept in a temporary file, but on a
reasonbly fast hard disk it's not *too* slow.

Jove is an Emacs-type editor (so you'll either love it or hate it :-)
and looks a lot like GNU Emacs, except that it is non-programmable. It
also runs on generic MS-DOS machines, Unix and (would you believe)
Macs. The DOS source is compatible with MS C 5.0 upwards.

While I'm on the subject, has anybody fixed Jove for 50-line VGA mode?
It  has a 43-line EGA mode, but it hits the metal a lot and doesn't work
too well on a VGA card. Should be fairly simple to fix, but I don't
think I've got the space on my hard disk to start hacking it :-).
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