[Gllug] Opening a large text file in a text editor

[Richard Jones]

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:15:38AM -0400, Mark Preston wrote:
> I've got an old text file which is 169Mb in size which contains my old 
> email "inbox".
> I have tried to open it with emacs and other text editors, but I get 
> "maximum buffer size exceeded" messages.

I'm rather surprised that emacs won't open it.

Anyhow, you should probably use the 'formail' command for processing
mbox-format files.  It can also split them, although the syntax for
doing this isn't very obvious.

Rich.

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