Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!zodiac.ukc.ac.uk!cur022 From: cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: editor Message-ID: <22203.2804396a@cluster@ukc.ac.uk> Date: 11 Apr 91 10:24:42 GMT References: <1491@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 20 In article , cs352a41@cs.iastate.edu (Class login) writes: > jearly@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (John Early) writes: > WordStar would be able to edit it. EDLIN would LET YOU THINK that you were > editing the whole thing, when in fact, you would only be editing 40,000 (or > was it 4,000) lines--if you saved, you would effectively truncate the file. > Not true. EDLIN reads in the file in chunks. Edit what you want in the first chunk, use the W command to write it out, use A to read in some more.... I don't claim it's easy. But it works. And, if you issue the E command to exit, it does copy the rest of the input file across. The person who inquired could look at an editor called the Technical Editor, available on SIMTEL20 as TE25.ZIP (not sure of the directory). It's shareware, $35 ($45 with source). It will edit files up to 32MB. -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Bob Eager | University of Kent at Canterbury | +44 227 764000 ext 7589 -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------