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From: darrylo@hpsrli.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Editing large files
Message-ID: <340005@hpsrli.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 88 17:30:27 GMT
References: <1232@wjvax.UUCP>
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc, james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen) writes:

> IN article <1232@wjvax.UUCP>, mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona) wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a way of editing extremely large text files?  I have
     [ ... ]
> Try a text editor called "Brief".  I've edited files upwards of 2meg with
     [ ... ]
> have to have a huge amount of disk space.  It's also as fast as any editor
> I've used, especially for large files.
> -- 
> James R. Van Artsdalen    ...!uunet!utastro!bigtex!james     "Live Free or Die"
> Home: 512-346-2444 Work: 328-0282; 110 Wild Basin Rd. Ste #230, Austin TX 78746

     You obviously don't have an 8088-based machine :-).  In my opinion, Brief
is too slow on an 8088-based machine.  On a '286 or '386, I imagine it's more
than adequately fast.  As far as fast editors go, both Qedit and PE II are
much, much faster than Brief (but then they don't handle large files or regular
expressions -- speaking of which, has anyone managed to redefine the special
regular expression characters used by Brief?  Having to use non-standard
regular expression characters is a pain in the #$^%?!).

     -- Darryl Okahata
	{hplabs!hpccc!, hpfcla!} hpsrla!darrylo
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Disclaimer: the above is the author's personal opinion and is not the
opinion or policy of his employer or of the little green men that
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