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From: salaman@upr2.clu.net (Victor Salaman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: editor
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.101929.21388@upr2.clu.net>
Date: 14 Apr 91 10:19:29 GMT
References: <2805be69@ralf>
Organization: University of Puerto Rico
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In article <2805be69@ralf> Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>In article <1991Apr10.160159.11372@novell.com>, tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk) wrote:
>}The News Manager)
>}In article <1491@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> jearly@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (John Early) writes:
>}>Last night I wanted to edit a DOS file that was 1243651 bytes long.  I only
>}>found one real editor in my collection that would do it: Borland's Sprint.
>}
>}Brief will edit it, Sage will, even though I am not crazy of
>}either.  Question: How many times do you have a file of this size to
>}work with?  I think I would rather stick to my "limited to memory" and
>}fast like a lightning editor and use a word processor in a text-only
>}mode for those rare events when I have an elephant to edit. There is a
>}good chance some of those editors will start making use of 386 ability
>}to address extended memory, and all the problems will be over.
>
>Why not have both speed and unlimited file size?  Epsilon will search
>through an entire 1 meg file (for a nonexistent string) in only 1.5
>seconds on my 386, and uses EMS memory if available for storing the
>files you are working on (it can also swap to one or more disks if
>needed).  For files which Qedit can handle, Epsilon is just as fast as
>Qedit, and in fact loads the files more quickly.
>
>--
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is Epsilon a {shareware|freeware|pd|peeware} program? and Where can I get it?

							Thanks. 

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