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From: catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: large file text editor
Message-ID: <1018@super.upenn.edu.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 18:29:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 18:29:09 1987
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Reply-To: catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Tony Catone)
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Keywords: editors, FinalWord II, emacs

In article <119200008@convexs> rotheroe@convexs.UUCP writes:
>
>I know it was discussed recently, but I didn't pay attention then, and
>can't find anything in the last ~150 notes now.
>
>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).
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Dave Rotheroe         {allegra, ihnp4, uiucdcs, ctvax}!convex!rotheroe
>CONVEX Computer Corporation
>Richardson, TX

FinalWord II, by Mark of the Unicorn, should fit the bill.  It's a
complete word processing system that comes in two parts, an emacs
like fully reconfigurable editor that sports an excellent macro
programming language (even supports recursion!) and user definable
menus/keystrokes, and a Scribe like formatter that on an Apple LaserWriter
produces the best output I've seen this side of TeX.  The size of the
files the editor can handle is limited only by the size of its swap file;
minimum size is circa 32K, maximum is 510K, the size can be changed by
the user at any time and multiple users may have multiple swap files (they
are searched for in you PATH if not found in the current subdirectory).
Because of some internal overhead, the max file size to edit will be somewhat
less than 510K even in the best case, but it should certainly fill your
needs.  In addition, the editor supports up to 6 windows, 23 files open
at a time, lets you use either a direct write to the screen, BIOS, or
Ansi.sys screen driver, does horizontal scrolling, has a maximum line
lenght of about 32,000 characters (!), and stores in pure ASCII (although
an option exists to use chr(255) as the newline character, it can and
should be immediately turned off).

Mail me if you need more info.  Standard disclaimer applies: I have no
connection with Mark of the Unicorn except as a satisfied user.

						- Tony
						  catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu
						  catone@wharton.upenn.edu