Re: Files larger than available memory.

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 1990 01:36

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In article <14893@cbmvax.commodore.com> valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
A bunch of good stuff about useful VM applications, but the following is a
bit stretched...

> Now getting back to your example, how can I edit a 500 page book, if I don't
> have virtual memory, and the editor does not have a built-in VM manager?

Break it up into sections.

> I'd
> be forced to devide the book in section, and keep guessing at what page each
> chapter starts.

1> list book
Directory "dh0:book"
Chapter1                  901852 ----rw-d 20-Jun-90 17:21:50
Chapter2                  878616 ----rw-d 20-Jun-90 17:21:50
Chapter3                 1001184 ----rwed 03-Sep-90 14:05:13
...

> And what a nightmare to create an index!

1> cd book
1> nroff -mindex Chapter#?
; nroff -mindex is just nroff -me with a global divert to nil: for everything
; but the index...
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Files larger than available memory.
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Date: 6 Oct 90 01:36:47 GMT
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