file too large

[Michael Meissner]

In article <FISCHER.89Sep17141429 at rosser.iesd.auc.dk> fischer at iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes:
| In article <2388 at netcom.UUCP> beaulieu at netcom.UUCP (Bob Beaulieu) writes:
| >I have a text file that is very large (26,000+ lines) and would like
| >to break it down to 5-6 smaller files. Is there an easy way to handle
| >this? I have tried vi but, it seems to hold 5000 lines in its buffer.
| >The same goes for ed and ex.
| 
| Try emacs(1). Handles files with up to 2^31 characters.

That really depends on the emacs implementation.  GNU emacs for
example, requires that all text, global data, and buffer space fit
within 2^24 bytes.  This is because the upper 8 bits are used to
encode the type and are also used for garbage collection.
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