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Re: Need a Good Program Editor

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From: Ralf.Brown
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 12:38
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In article <1992Apr13.025250.11985@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, sforslev@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Susanne Forslev) wrote:
}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

Lugaru's Epsilon should be able to handle it, as long as you have an
extra 54 megs for swap space....  Based on experience with a 1.7 meg
file, it should take about 3 minutes to load a file that big (mostly
spent copying it to the swap file).

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