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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Emacs clones
Message-ID: <13491@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 29 Mar 89 21:05:13 GMT
References: <2382@lll-lcc.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <2382@lll-lcc.UUCP> rzh@lll-lcc.UUCP (Roger Hanscom) writes:
| If I can add my $0.02 to the emacs discussion here...one thing to
| watch for is that one version of 80xx emacs will handle files of
| any size (microEMACS??) and one seems to have a 64k limit (Freemacs??)
| .....I might have the names reversed!!  Me, I'll take the no-size-
| limit version any day (even if it isn't full-featured).

  I don't know of *any* version which has no limit. MicroEMACS, at least
up to v3.9p, keeps the file in memory and will run out on large files.
On real computers and operating system it will handle multi-megabyte
files.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me