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From: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (cbema!las)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Emacs clones
Message-ID: <5258@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Mar 89 18:39:15 GMT
References: <2382@lll-lcc.UUCP> <13491@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH (actually an AGS consultant)
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In article <13491@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>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 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.

I just got the Jove 4.12 sources.  The accompanying readme's state that
different versions may be generated from the source for the PC, depending
on your requirements.  "Large" versions use all available memory and an
indefinitely large temporary file.  It claims to be able to edit a file of 
20,000 to 25,000 lines on a 640KB PC with enough disk space to hold the 
temporary file.  A "medium" version is also possible which limits itself 
to 130KB of RAM and a temporary file of 512KB with the ability to edit
a file of 4,500 to 5,000 lines.  I have to get Turbo C patches from
somebody else listed in the documentation before I can even try it.

regards, Larry
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