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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO Xenix "ex" limitation revisited
Message-ID: <9264@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 15 Oct 88 15:27:54 GMT
References: <173@libove.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
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Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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In <173@libove.UUCP>, root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) wrote:

> The file I was working with is a 14000 line, 450Kbyte file, a list of
> all the files on my system.

> Yes, I know, I'm crazy for wanting to edit that big a file;

I've edited my history file on several occasions, and have made manual
repairs to a customer database (maybe 4meg of text) by converting to
text, editing, then converting back.  GNU emacs works fine for this.
I understand GNU emacs does not behave well above 6meg though.
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