From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Leonid Grinberg" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Reading huge files Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:17:23 -0500 Message-ID: <8642ba650701081417n3c658d33v6dbf743a9bd30c7c@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168294670 9420 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2007 22:17:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:17:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 08 23:17:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H42oH-0002rR-Tr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:17:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H42oG-0002Yw-V2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:17:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H42o3-0002Y2-Q6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:17:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H42o2-0002XB-1u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:17:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H42o1-0002X4-N8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:17:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.249.92.170] (helo=ug-out-1314.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H42o1-0001wk-CK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:17:25 -0500 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so7111460ugf for ; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:17:24 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=MijhJPiS0Qb2B5ZxluAmCoz4RNG62e4iEwPhVrjd02RqUPdFlwaP0TtEVnoA95n7+aPCbVPC5xpRDGxdl86NrD0cezQe0c83U5ZN5ivn30lKS95E+gVnNUGdTFBgbSg+G+bwbYDBerQJ9EMhNpuQhiZHYodJO1zQrAjtfH1P5gY= Original-Received: by 10.78.50.5 with SMTP id x5mr4298219hux.1168294644189; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:17:24 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.78.11.13 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:17:23 -0800 (PST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40188 Archived-At: Hello, I need to read a file, which contains approximately 1.2GB of data. Obviously, this is well above the maximum buffer limit. Is there any way for me to read it without 1) breaking it up into smaller files and 2) using a different editor I am using GNU Emacs 21.4.1 on Ubuntu Edgy Eft on a Dell Latitude C600 with 256MB of memory. Thanks in advance! -- Leonid Grinberg