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If i want to process a huge file (my weekly log file is about 0.5GB),
what can i do?

i tried to open and it says maximum buffer size exceeded.

=E2=80=A2 How can i increase the limit?

=E2=80=A2 is there a general solution to work with files (elisp) without
actually loading the whole file?

Thanks in advance.

  Xah
  xah@xahlee.org
=E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/

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