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Article #154Re: Need a Good Program Editor
From: John A. Slagel
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:08
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:08
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sforslev@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Susanne Forslev) writes:
>I have a consulting client who has a 54 mb DIF file that was lunched in
>three or four places. Thanks to the Norton Utilities, I fixed a couple
>places, but I can only substitute instead of actually delete the bad
>records. What I need is a good editor that can handle a file this large
>without taking 3 hours to load, so that I can get the file in a decent
>shape to load into Paradox. Another programmer sat on this project for
>weeks, so of course the project is overdue :-}. Any help will be greatly
>appreciated.
Whenever I have a large file, I use WordPerfect. Load it as a
text file. WP swaps to/from disk and can handle pretty big files
if I remember correctly. It's worth a shot, anyway...
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