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From: reid@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Reid Trimble)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: editors for huge files
Message-ID: <320002@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Jan 91 21:11:48 GMT
References: <1991Jan28.201452.27323@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
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> (From: Roggie Boone) /  1:14 pm  Jan 28, 1991 /
> 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'll refrain from making any comments regarding programming style or
maintainability...

> 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 prefer to get PD editors from ftp sites, but I would appreciate
> any info.

Try CALVIN, a partial vi clone that was posted on comp.binaries.ibm.pc
recently.  Using the :set directory command to point at an empty 2Mb
ram disk I was able to edit a 1.6Mb text file.