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On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Michael Kariru wrote:

> I am trying to open a 250MB text file using Emacs but I get the following error message:
> 
> Maximum buffer size exceeded.
> 
> Is there a way of increasing the buffer size? How else can I open this file?

Currently, the only way to overcome the 128 Meg limit is to build Emacs 
as a 64-bit application on a 64-bit system.