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From: skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO Xenix "ex" limitation revisited
Message-ID: <3700003@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 88 04:17:13 GMT
References: <173@libove.UUCP>
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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No, you're not crazy for wanting to edit a file that big.  I had the
Ed wiped out lots of my work before I figured out what was going on--no
message, no warning--it just chopped off everything at about about 100K.

To get around this, try using split [filename].  It will turn your file into
a lot of smaller files, called xaa, xab, xac, and so on.  You can edit these
smaller files and then chunk them back into one big one with

	cat x* > original.name

Hope this helps