Editor for BIG files?

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From: Joel M. Hoffman
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 13:32

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I'd like to edit a file that won't fit in the VM on my Unix machine.
Is there an editor that will do this?  Ideally, something Emacs-like
would be nice, but I think GNU Emacs reads the whole file into memory.
I suppose I could live with vi.  How does it work?

Also, I have to be able to read arbitrarily long lines and binary
files.

Any ideas?

-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)

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