Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: file too large Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 15:56:00 GMT References: <2388@netcom.UUCP> <1226@xyzzy.UUCP> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 23 In-reply-to: meissner@tiktok.dg.com's message of 18 Sep 89 21:44:03 GMT In article <1226@xyzzy.UUCP> meissner@tiktok.dg.com (Michael Meissner) writes: >| Try emacs(1). Handles files with up to 2^31 characters. > >That really depends on the emacs implementation. GNU emacs for >example, requires that all text, global data, and buffer space fit >within 2^24 bytes. This is because the upper 8 bits are used to >encode the type and are also used for garbage collection. OK, so I blew it. Sorry. If you need to edit files with more than 200k lines (80 chars/line), don't use emacs. In all other cases, do :-). (Only 16M chars per session? You mean I can't say "emacs /dev/xy0c"? Anybody out there has a *real* editor?? :-). /Lars -- Copyright 1989 Lars Fischer; you can redistribute only if your recipients can. Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk, {...}!mcvax!iesd!fischer Department of Computer Science, University of Aalborg, DENMARK. Our audience is programmers, because the UNIX environment was designed fundamentally for programming. -- Kernighan & Pike