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From: mobo@sphinx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: large file text editor
Message-ID: <1391@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 20:26:54 EST
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1391
Posted: Fri Apr  3 20:26:54 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 08:40:15 EST
References: <119200008@convexs> <535@inuxm.UUCP>
Reply-To: mobo@sphinx.UUCP (Samuel Wilson)
Organization: U Chicago Social Sciences
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Keywords: wordperf

In article <535@inuxm.UUCP> sdh@inuxm.UUCP (Stephen Hoskins) writes:
>> Anyone have or know of a text editor which can edit 100-500k (usually ~150k)
>> ascii files.  
>
>The vi editor that comes with the MKS toolkit can edit very large files.
>
I have done 300K files in Wordperfect, but always found it easier to do
is in <100K chunks and join it at the end.

Samuel Wilson         ..ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mobo
                            FOTMOBO@UCHMVS1.Bitnet
University of Chicago, Division of Social Sciences