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Article #5426Re: Files larger than available memory.
From: J. Eric Townsend
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 21:58
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 21:58
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In article <1990Sep24.150432.25049@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> dailey@frith.uucp (Chris Dailey) writes: >Why, yes. What if the text to be inserted is greater than the space on >the disk? You write out a new file of the correct size. No problem. > There is no super-elegant way of doing this. You'd have to >allocate more disk space, link it in. Sounds like a lot of >system-dependent stuff to me. Any efficient editor will have to be system dependent to some degree. I can't just take the source to vi(1) and recompile on the Amiga. (If only I could...) -- J. Eric Townsend -- University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics (713) 749-2120 Internet: jet@uh.edu Bitnet: jet@UHOU Skate UNIX(r)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!karazm.math.uh.edu!jet From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Files larger than available memory. Message-ID: <1990Sep24.215828.1158@lavaca.uh.edu> Date: 24 Sep 90 21:58:28 GMT References: <924@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> <1990Sep23.174736.16118@lavaca.uh.edu> <1990Sep24.150432.25049@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Sender: nntppost@lavaca.uh.edu (NNTP Posting Service) Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics Lines: 18