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Subject: Re:  Request for information about editors
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Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 02:47:29 EDT
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From: Glen Overby 

In his posting of 23 Jul 87 09:23:03 GMT, Andy Tanenbaum  writes:
> Has anyone ported jove to MINIX?  That would be very nice.  How about
> micro Emacs?  Has anyone tried modifying mined to handle larger files
> (it's not trivial or I would have long done it)?  Does anyone have or know
> of any other screen editor that can handle large files and runs on MINIX or
> could be made to?
I have tried porting Micro Emacs version 3.6 and MicroGnuEmacs. On both
I recieved a "Out of memory" message (or something to that effect) from
asld. I assumed it was running out of output memory (the 64K code space
limitation) and gave up. Both of these Emacs require that the entire
file be loaded into memory at one time, so it wouldn't help for big
files. Jove looks like it would be worth a try...

Glen Overby
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