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Re: Editor for BIG files?

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From: Rohit Mehrotra
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 14:46
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In article <1992Oct28.133243.10329@wam.umd.edu> joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
>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)

CRISP 3.0 would do the above without any problems. It reads the initial
20k (I think) of the file quickly at startup and leaves the rest alone. 
If the user wants to go in the unread area it then reads the entire thing
up. One is though eventually limited by the swap space.

It does not have any restrictions on line lengths etc and has no problems
editing binary files. Infact for binary files, it will split the lines in
80 char each for easy perusal, however would put it all together at the
time of exit, without user's intervention.

CRISP 3.0 is a commercial product.

Rohit
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