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From: sdh@inuxm.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: large file text editor
Message-ID: <535@inuxm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 08:34:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  3 08:34:10 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 04:28:52 EST
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Organization: AT&T Consumer Products, Indianapolis
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> Anyone have or know of a text editor which can edit 100-500k (usually ~150k)
> ascii files.  IBM's writing assistant and PC-write both seem to have a 64k
> limit on file size - ugh - maybe I should have bought a mac (sorry, wrong
> newsgroup & too early in the morning).

The vi editor that comes with the MKS toolkit can edit very large files.
The only limit given in the documentation is 50K lines.  I have edited
files of around 140K bytes.  Things slow down with a file that large, but
everything works.

Stephen Hoskins
AT&T Consumer Products Labs.
Indianapolis, IN.