Re: Long text file to edit..

[Pann McCuaig <pann@agora.rdrop.com>]

On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 12:23:59AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 17-Jul-98 Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote:
> >       I want to edit a 700MB text file. vi tells that the file is
> > too long, and xemacs tells that "maximum buffer size something.." :)
> >       There is a way to view this file?
> 
> Ehh?? Are you sure it's 700MB?? And are you sure it's a pure plain text file?
> And, if so, have you thought about what that corresponds to? (And the same
> question to the other contributors to this thread).

Well, maybe not to actually edit, but certainly to view and search. A log
file with a high debug level for example, used to catch an occasional and
unpredictable oops that may happen once only every few days.

Cheers,
 Pann


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