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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.text
Subject: Re: Editing large files
Message-ID: <906@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 8 Mar 88 21:32:33 GMT
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Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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Posted: Tue Mar  8 15:32:33 1988

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
> a data base program that automatically generates these large reports
> (in excess of 600k bytes) and I occasionally need to do some editing
> on them.

Try a text editor called "Brief".  I've edited files upwards of 2meg with
it.  It does not create temporary files anywhere (except in some rare cases
involving cut & paste, and I believe these never exceed 64K), so you don't
have to have a huge amount of disk space.  It's also as fast as any editor
I've used, especially for large files.
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