Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:15:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple Editor for a newbie? - inc color Message-ID: <20010827221520.A17383@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010827201820.01ee5200@icsmx.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010828104735.02ed1908@mail.ideal.net.au> <20010828021942.A50163@student.uu.se> <5.1.0.14.2.20010827183056.01ee8cb0@icsmx.com> <3B89D9CA.9F0ECF29@citystamp.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010827183056.01ee8cb0@icsmx.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010827201820.01ee5200@icsmx.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 27), Jorge Biquez said: > Samba sounds good.... but on our testing file we have tried already > with several editors (286 MB of simple text) and until now ALL > editors on windoze machines (even NT) had failed that test (the > machine frezzes). Maybe you don't really want an editor; if all you're doing is text replacement, you can use sed. It works on a single line at a time, so it doesn't matter what size file you have. Joe handles large files well; it creates an on-disk swapfile for input files over 5MB. Swapping degenerates when you edit every line in the file, so loading a large file and doing a search&replace that touches most of the lines will take a loong time. SCSI disks help a lot. I've edited multi-hundred-meg files with no problem. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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