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From: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Uses for Edit
Summary: You can split a large file with it.
Message-ID: <429@antares.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 10:18:02 GMT
References: <6735@ecsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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In article <6735@ecsvax.UUCP> utoddl@ecsvax.UUCP (Todd M. Lewis) writes:
>Does anybody use Edit?
>If so, How, Why, and What On?

I used Edit once.  I had an 800K INFO-AMIGA.TEXT file which Emacs couldn't
handle.  With Edit I had it read the file until it came to a particular
string (a date) and output the first half of the big file to a 2nd floppy
and the second half of the big file to a 3rd floppy.  Don't ask me what
commands I used; I retained that information just long enough to get the
job done.

I don't expect to use Edit again until I have need for editing something
via an Execute script.
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