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From: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: large file text editor
Message-ID: <106@hobbes.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 02:46:22 EST
Article-I.D.: hobbes.106
Posted: Thu Apr  9 02:46:22 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 13-Apr-87 04:15:57 EST
References: <119200008@convexs> <103@hobbes.UUCP> <350@micropro.UUCP>
Reply-To: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher)
Organization: U of Wisconsin - Madison  Spanish Department
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+---- Morris Jones writes the following in article <350@micropro.UUCP> ----
| +---- In article <103@hobbes.UUCP> I wrote
| | I hate to drag up a program better left dead, but I've used WordStar 3.3 to
| +----
| Any of the WordStar versions will handle file sizes limited by disk space
| only.
+----

NO!!!!  - Every version of WordStar before 3.3 was limited to 8 Meg
filesize.  Even under MP/M which allowed 32Meg drives.  Even under
CCP/M which allows 500Meg drives.  Even the ones for MS-DOS.
Version 3.xx (where 1 < xx < 3, I forget which) went so far as to
*silently* truncate files to 8 Meg!  Versions before 3.x would not
edit files larger than 8 Meg.  I know - we've been using WS as our
editor-of-choice on a CompuPro MP/M / CCP/M box for the last 6
years!  We have 320 Meg of disk space (and *use* it!).  That is why
I put in the version number - older versions DIDN'T WORK RIGHT.
Not a bad problem - I'd assume we were one of the FEW users who
actually hit the 8 Meg boundry!  But it needs to be pointed out that 
there WAS a limit.
   (This is NOT a flame!)

+----
| Here's a little known tip:
| ... Morris Jones, MicroPro Int'l Corp., Product Development
+----

Thanks!


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