mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz) (03/17/91)
Help! I have a very large (2 megabytes) ascii text file which I am unable to load into AppleWorks GS despite the fact that I have 4.25 meg!! Is there a way to "trick" AWGS into loading it? I have used FileManager to manipulate the filetype, but no dice! I would like a program similar to long play which would allow me to view a text file directly from disk. Is there a program like this out there? I would also like to have editing capability from within the program (basically selecting areas and saving them to the clipboard or scrapbook). Don't ask me why the file is so large!!! I downloaded it from my account and then destroyed the original. I could upload it back to my account and edit it there, but that would take too long! Thanks in advance! Mike mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu
kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires) (03/17/91)
mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz) writes: >Help! >I have a very large (2 megabytes) ascii text file which I am >unable to load into AppleWorks GS despite the fact that I have >4.25 meg!! >Is there a way to "trick" AWGS into loading it? I have used >FileManager to manipulate the filetype, but no dice! >I would like a program similar to long play which would allow >me to view a text file directly from disk. Is there a program >like this out there? I would also like to have editing >capability from within the program (basically selecting areas >and saving them to the clipboard or scrapbook). Well, you need to somehow segment the file into smalller files. A lot of programs have the option to view a text file on disk. ProTERM has it (T = Type a disk file), a lot of the shareware utility programs have that option, too. >Don't ask me why the file is so large!!! I downloaded it from >my account and then destroyed the original. I could upload it >back to my account and edit it there, but that would take too >long! >Thanks in advance! >Mike >mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu
taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) (03/19/91)
From mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz): > I would like a program similar to long play which would allow > me to view a text file directly from disk. Is there a program > like this out there? I would also like to have editing > capability from within the program (basically selecting areas > and saving them to the clipboard or scrapbook). Try Stowe Keller's Lister utility (P8-based, but excellent nonetheless). I have version 2.1, but there may or may not be an update to that. It will read in ANY unforked file and display it as text (you can specify the line terminator) or as a binary dump. It only loads in the portion of the file you are looking at, so it the display is EXTREMELY quick. There isn't any editing capability in version 2.1, but you can do string/byte searches and extract portions of the file to disk. Brian T. Tao *B-) | t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca | "Though this be U of Metro Toronto | - or - | madness, yet there Scarberia, ON | taob@pnet91.cts.com | is method in 't."
sb@pnet91.cts.com (Stephen Brown) (03/22/91)
mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz) writes: >Help! > >I have a very large (2 megabytes) ascii text file which I am >unable to load into AppleWorks GS despite the fact that I have >4.25 meg!! > >Is there a way to "trick" AWGS into loading it? I have used >FileManager to manipulate the filetype, but no dice! May I suggest that you use AppleWorks (classic) instead. Not only will it be faster in loading, but in editing too. AWGS is ill equipped for this, or any other serious application. UUCP: lsuc!graham!pnet91!sb INET: sb@pnet91.cts.com