Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size

2015-03-16 Thread Don Flowers
It would seem that is the logical solution. I thank you all for the advice. I have compared a few editors and have decided to start with Setedit. I am updating a bible translation (The Concordant Literal Translation) which I originally compiled for my BibleWorks program using UltraEdit in Linux.

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2015-03-16 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:19 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>> >>> Maybe that was because DOS is not really made for large RAM. >> >> Editors I'm aware of that ran under DOS and edited really lar

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-16 Thread Don Flowers
I thank you all for the advice. I have compared a few editors and have decided to start with Setedit. I am updating a bible translation (The Concordant Literal Translation) which I originally compiled for my BibleWorks program using UltraEdit in Linux. The Old Testament text recently received a l

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:19 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> >> Maybe that was because DOS is not really made for large RAM. > > Editors I'm aware of that ran under DOS and edited really large files > used spill files, keeping what would fit i

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Using elvis 2.2, I was able to view and edit files in DR-DOS above 1.5 MB, but > scrolling through a file of 3 MB was prohibitively slow; no such problem in > Linux. I had bad memories of Elvis. Not that it was bad in features, but