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From: amir@booboo.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: large file text editor
Message-ID: <334@booboo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 17:46:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: booboo.334
Posted: Tue May 19 17:46:32 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 21-May-87 01:35:44 EDT
References: <119200008@convexs> <246@uvicctr.UUCP>
Organization: Gould CSD, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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In article <246@uvicctr.UUCP>, sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP writes:
> 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).....
It's strange that you recommend this version of VI for this application.
Have you ever run "chkdsk" after editing a file that is bigger than
32K bytes?  If not, I recommend that you do that as soon as possible.
The version that you have *will corrupt* your MS-DOS filesystem by
creating duplicate clusters.  Chkdsk can fix it but I sure as hell wouldn't
trust this version.

I caught this bug and reported it to MKS and they fixed it in the new 
version (which came out in January).  This same version has a number of
other bugs that could cause you to loose data.

> ....  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...).
> 
Now, the new version fixes the bug with large files but is SLOW.  The
screen update is about one line a second (in scroll mode)!  God knows
what made them slow it down.  It still has bugs that can cause the system
to crash (and erase your file) but you are hard pressed to find them.

They could have a nice prodcut but given the state of their Korn shell
(the thing is darn unusable -- it crashes your system every four or 
five commands!) and the vi, I hesitate to recommend this product to
anyone.
-- 
Amir H. Majidimehr
Gould Inc, Computer Systems Division
{sun,pur-ee,brl-bmd}!gould!amir