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In article <2470@uudell.dell.com>, randy@uutopia.dell.com (randy) wrote:
}In article <3658@plains.UUCP>, cooper@plains.UUCP (Jeff Cooper) writes:
}> I'm looking for a editor that can work with HUGE (2 meg) files.  
}
}You don't state the particulars of your needs, but I would like to
}suggest Brief.  I have used in in program development and repairing
}damaged files.  In the case of the latter, Brief is particularly
}effective as it will also edit lines of 512 characters.  It has macros

Only 512 characters?  Sprint will handle arbitrarily long lines--when I first
bought it, I made up a test file consisting of a single 70,000-character
line.  Sprint handled it just fine (except that the column count overflowed
its 16-bit counter).  Although I've never had occasion to edit multi-meg
files, Sprint does handle files much larger than available memory.  I regularly
edit a 600K file in a 250K partition under DESQview....


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