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From: rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Randy Spangler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Editors and huge files
Message-ID: <4710@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 28 Feb 90 07:09:49 GMT
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In article <3658@plains.UUCP> cooper@plains.UUCP (Jeff Cooper) writes:
>I'm looking for a editor that can work with HUGE (2 meg) files.  
>Does anyone know of any editors that can handle this?  I thought
>QEdit could, but it's limited to 640K and so cuts the file off
>when it runs out of memory.  I really don't care if the editor
>loads the whole thing into RAM or reads it off the disk as it
>is needed.  (I'd prefer the latter, I have enough memory but
>I'd like a "disk based" editor)  Thanks for any help anyone can
>offer me.

Ahem.  (glance around to make sure no one is listening)

Dare I suggest (gasp) WordStar?

I've used releases 3.3, 4.0, and 5.0 with files >1.2MB, so I assume it will
handle 2MB just fine, too.

And yes, I even still use WordStar.  And admit it in public.  :-) :-)


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