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Article #4523Re: Editing large files
From: Chris Torek
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1988 01:14
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1988 01:14
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>Mario Dona (mario@wjvax.UUCP) writes: >>Does anyone know of a way of editing extremely large text files? In article <1270003@hpsemc.HP.COM> bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger) writes: >If you have System V or Xenix, look into bfs (`big file scanner'). Or consider the Rand Editor (now the Grand Editor, from Grand Software Inc.). Whether the newest versions are like the ancient but venerable hacked V6 version we had installed under 4.1BSD I cannot say, but that version would edit arbitrarily large files, even on a PDP-11 with 64K text+data+stack (non split I&D). -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!umd5!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Editing large files Message-ID: <10631@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 12 Mar 88 01:14:49 GMT References: <1232@wjvax.UUCP> <1270003@hpsemc.HP.COM> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 14