"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> I could not load this file in its entirety into memory either. What
> I did was to first divide it into four equal segments by using a program
> named CHOP.EXE
I can remember running into this problem. There are some editors that'll let
you edit a file larger than memory without having to chop it up.
Apropos the recent thread on Linux/Unix editors, there's one for DOS called
Elvis that's a knock-off of vi for the truly masochistic. From the info page
(http://www.fh-wedel.de/elvis/manual/elvis.html): "Like vi/ex, Elvis stores
most of the text in a temporary file, instead of RAM. This allows it to edit
files that are too large to fit in a single process' data space. Also, the
edit buffer can survive a power failure or crash."
I'm sure there are more user friendly editors with such capabilities, but
though I'd point out one that I'm familiar with. I stumbled on a nice
collection of DOS stuff, including editors, at:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1401/softlib1.htm (apologies if
this is old news) including a mostly-idle mailing list at
http://www.egroups.com/community/dosware .
- Bob
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