On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 8:29 PM Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > From dmccunney: > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:40 AM Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > > > > The edit command has limits on size; had to use Wordperfect on one file. > > > In 2015 Dennis talked about using vedit but can't find a dos version. > > > In the new world large files are common. > > > Large files are common. Large *text* files are not. > > How large is a large text file? > 100 MB?
Or more, or less. > One source of a large text file is the log file when compiling software. > Maybe this would occur more with Linux or BSD than FreeDOS. Things like /var/log in Linux systems can get enormous. But you normally don't need to *edit* them - just *view* them. Viewing is what things like less are for. > When rebuilding NetBSD from source, log file tends to exceed 100 MB; not so > huge with FreeBSD. > > I would usually not want to copy or edit such a file but might want to copy a > range of lines, for which I use vi, but this is not DOS. Under DOS, you are unlikely to need to. Under Linux or *BSD or Windows, you have the tools that can do it. And in any case, text files that large may *exist* in DOS, but *aren't* common. > Tom ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
