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From: rich@pro-exchange.cts.COM (Rich Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 36K + ProDos Editor
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Date: 8 Aug 88 18:53:10 GMT
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>I have a small problem.  I currently own AE Mousetalk (1.5) and sometimes 
>have problems editing lengthy comp.binaries.apple2 files (500+ lines).  The
>editor is only 36K and so I cannot load some of the files into memory to 
>modify them (case in point.  David Whitney goofed on  his Zlink post and
>needed
>the last line to be changed. Not easy because it was a 600 line post).  I
>don't
>mind exiting mousetalk but  I don't even have any ProDos Word processors that
>will do the trick.  I have FreeWriter but it is bound by about 30K also.

FreeWriter will handle any size text file!  You need to load the file in
segments, specifying the starting 'marker' as follows:

     CTRL-L myfile!marker_text!

That causes the file to be loaded starting at 'marker_text' and loading until
memory is full of the end-of-file is reached.  If you only want to load a
part of the file, you can specify both a starting and ending marker.

     CTRL-L myfile!starting_marker!ending_marker!

That loads the file from 'starting_marker' and loading until 'ending_marker'
is reached (unless you run out of memory or reach the end-of-file first!).

NOTE:  The '!' symbols in the examples are the text delimiters.  You aren't
       restricted to using that, other characters/symbols will also work, as
       long as they are not included in the delimited text itself.  You can
       do some interesting tricks using various delimiter characters.

To save a file larger than available memory, save the first segment normally:

     CTRL-S myfile

Then save all subsequent segments with the same filename, but add a '+' after
the filename:

     CTRL-S myfile+

Answer 'yes' when you're asked if you want to delete the old file.  This will
cause FreeWriter to save the segments by appending them to the existing file.