GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie) (01/22/90)
Does anyone here know of text editors or wordprocessors that will edit a document larger than available memory? For example, I batch downloaded my email into one large file, and then found it was so large I had nothing to edit it with. I have found out from others that TextCraft, Ed, CygnusEd, Excellence, WordPerfect, Scribble, will not open files larger than available memory. Although,some of the wysiwyg ones like Ecellence will try for over an hour to load the file, until you get to impatient and reboot. The only one that worked was the AmigaDOS EDIT command. It was very slow though. In comparison, MS-WORD handles files like this very easily, provided you have a decent hard disk (which I do). +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Dennis Gorrie 'Sudden de-compression Sucks!' | |GORRIEDE AT UREGINA1.BITNET | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo Karl Schuermann) (01/22/90)
In article <9001220510.AA16544@jade.berkeley.edu> GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie) writes: > >Does anyone here know of text editors or wordprocessors that will >edit a document larger than available memory? For example, I batch downloaded >my email into one large file, and then found it was so large I had nothing >to edit it with. I have found out from others that TextCraft, Ed, CygnusEd, >Excellence, WordPerfect, Scribble, will not open files larger than available >memory. Although,some of the wysiwyg ones like Ecellence will try for over >an hour to load the file, until you get to impatient and reboot. I'm fairly sure that WordPerfect WILL edit files larger than memory. Its restriction is diskspace where it stores overflow files. It stores these files in T: Thus if you ASSIGN T: RAM: then WP is limited to RAM, but if you assign it to a harddisk (floppies work but are limited to 880K and are slow) you'll be able to edit files as large as the free space on that device. Udo Schuermann // "The power to destroy a thing is the walrus@cscwam.umd.edu \X/ absolute control over it." -- Frank Herbert
cs121jj@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (01/22/90)
The virtual edit idea sounds like a good idea for a suggestion for Perry. Is he still with ASDG, or what? Anyhoo, if anyone has direct access to him or Bruce Dawson (the main author), that would be a REAL good idea.
jh@ccave.UUCP (Juergen Hermann) (01/31/90)
In article <9001220510.AA16544@jade.berkeley.edu> GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie) writes: >Excellence, WordPerfect, Scribble, will not open files larger than available Are you sure about WordPerfect? To my knowledge (I own it) WP never loads the whole file into memory, but has a static buffer of 32K or so (by default, that's setable). -- // Juergen Hermann UUCP: ira.uka.de!smurf!ccave!jh \X/ 75 Karlsruhe 1, FRG Fido: 2:241/2.1212@FidoNet