Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ra!Isis.MsState.Edu!it1 From: it1@Isis.MsState.Edu (Tim Tsai) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Editor that can handle BIG files wanted ... Keywords: big editor Message-ID: Date: 30 Jun 91 05:03:27 GMT References: <51460@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Jun30.041503.7166@menudo.uh.edu> Sender: usenet@ra.MsState.Edu Distribution: usa Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: isis.msstate.edu wjin@viking.cs.uh.edu (Woochang Jin) writes: >In article <51460@ut-emx.uucp> dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren, esquire.) writes: >>I'm looking for an editor that can handle huge text files (like over a meg) >Even though there exist a few editors which can edit mega bytes of data, >I don't recommend them, because it will take more than 2 minutes to load >such a big file. Usually it takes time even to move around and modify >the file. Also, it takes another more than 2 minutes to save the >file and exit. tedit from simtel20 and wuarchive.wustl.edu can edit very large files (/mirrors/msdos/editor/tedit2.arc in wuarchive). I just loaded a 1.2 meg file on a 12 Mhz 286, 2:1 interleave MFM hd, and it took about 30 seconds. The neatest editor I have seen, however, is an editor called GEDIT by Gazelle Systems, which I believe is part of the QDos distribution (I don't know if this is shareware or commercial). The same 1.2 meg file came up immediately ready for editing while the editor loads the rest of the file in the background. Took 10 seconds to finish loading the same file.