On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 05:11, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:what I believe that limits on data that can be handled by application ( well written , of course ) is dictated by the physical limitation of the machine and obviously the OS being used. Correct me if I am wrong. so I think all of the above should be able to handle such big files . How efficiently ? this is a all-together different story ....
i tried somtime back till around 26 MB on a 1800 Athlon - took time
but was ok - don't have anything larger than that :-P
-sm
just realized it is not under a GUI, but at the command-prompt that this is required. i suppose emacs could handle a 14MB file of text in console mode. if so, would it also be able to handle such a large file under DOS? what about vi or vim? any other command-line text-editor or even wordprocessor that could do this?
?? LL
If you are talking about good old DOS ,I doubt any word processor would be able to handle such big files. Unless they are specifically designed to operate in protected mode. ( remeber dos4gw ..?? :P )
If you clarify what exactly you are aiming to do , i am sure there will be a better way ( slurping *in* this big a file using perl might not be a bad idea .... )
regards Ankit .
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