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From: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: large file text editor
Message-ID: <246@uvicctr.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Apr-87 20:30:19 EST
Article-I.D.: uvicctr.246
Posted: Sun Apr  5 20:30:19 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Apr-87 02:44:07 EST
References: <119200008@convexs>
Reply-To: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner)
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
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In article <119200008@convexs>, rotheroe@convexs.UUCP writes:
 
> 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 best one I have come across for that is the version of VI from the
MKS toolbox.  This version is a very complete version of vi (I have seen
a few buggs, but the version I have is NOT the most recent).  This version
not only gives you everything you are used to with standard UNIX VI,
(including ^Z), but you can edit any file that you have sufficent disk
space to hold a temporary buffer of (just like UNIX, WOW!!  :-).  One
problem though, I have only once came to the limit of my disk space
(I had about 1Meg free on my hard drive at the time, and was editing
a file that was about 1.5Meg), and it crashed real good.  I don't remember
just what happened, but I didn't lose the file (though I don't remember
if that was because I had backups or not, I wouldn't be supprised if I
didn't; YOU put that on a floppy...).  Anyhow, it is FAST, complete, and
will edit just about anything (how often do you have to edit a file that
won't fit on your hard-drive twice...).

Note: the VI from the MKS toolbox is the ONLY PC editor that I have
encountered that will edit a file that won't fit in memory (all at
once I mean).  I have encountered several versions of VI for the PC,
and quite a number of other editors that I like, but this is the only
one that will do the disk buffering.

                      S. John Banner

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