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From: ingoldsby@calgary.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: Editors and memory
Message-ID: <921@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 21:33:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 21:33:18 1987
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Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Ab.
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Keywords: Text bigger than memory
Summary: Larger than memory editors

If anyone has a working version of microemacs for the CoCo III I'd be very
interested in getting a copy.  Some time ago I got the source code for a
version of uemacs that I never got around to porting for the CoCo III.

I'd be interested in any other editors that can edit files larger than
available memory.  This can't be too hard since Wordstar does this on MS-DOS.
I don't know the exact algorithm used, but I do know that temporary files
are maintained.  It is possible to go both forwards and backwards in the
file.  Anyone who works with Wordstar could probably make a few experiments
and determine the algorithm used (surely this is not violation of copyright?).

                                          Terry Ingoldsby
                                         ihnp4!alberta!calgary!ingoldsby