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

[John Winters]

On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 09:15 -0400, Mark Preston wrote:
> Hi all,
> 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.

Use the One True Editor - vi - and you'll be fine.

John

fx: ducks and runs

P.S.  If you insist on continuing your heresy, then "split" will be your
friend.

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