From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pemente@northpark.edu (Eric Pement) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading portions of large files Date: 10 Jan 2003 08:27:54 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <227a55e9.0301100827.52be339e@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042216338 23132 80.91.224.249 (10 Jan 2003 16:32:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18X24u-00060o-00 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:32:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18X23b-0006GM-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:30:55 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.185.249.144 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1042216075 22302 127.0.0.1 (10 Jan 2003 16:27:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Jan 2003 16:27:55 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108800 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5329 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5329 Gerald.Jean@spgdag.ca wrote in message news:... > Hello, > > I have very large files, sometimes over 1G, from which I would like to > edit > very small portions, the headers or trailers for example. Emacs won't > open > those files, it complains about them being too big. The Emacs FAQ says that Emacs 20 and above can be compiled "on some 64-bit systems" to hande files of up to 550 million Gigabytes. However, it looks a bit dated and it would be handier if this section of the GNU Emacs FAQ were brought more up-to-date. If you use Windows editors, Vedit (http://www.vedit.com) will edit files of up to 2 Gigs in size, though it may take some time to load files of this size. And for just over-the-top accommodation, PDT-Windows claims to handle filesizes of up to 18 Exabytes (that's 18 billion Gigs)! I wonder if that is larger than the aggregate storage of all disks on the Internet? On a more realistic plane, their website says they have "easily edited files of 3 - 5 gigabytes". I've downloaded the eval version, and this editor is intended for editing large databases or binary files. It won't work well for plaintext or concatenated.tar program code. If you're interested, the URL is http://www.pro-central.com/pdt_win.htm HTH. -- Eric Pement