From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mac Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading portions of large files Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:55:57 GMT Organization: Telia Internet Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <818yxbht63.fsf@kwikemart.springfield.se> References: <5lbs2mdrxs.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043395168 3992 80.91.224.249 (24 Jan 2003 07:59:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:59:28 +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 18bykJ-00012E-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:59:27 +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 18bylO-0001n0-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:00:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.algonet.se!algonet!news-stob.telia.net!telia.net!194.22.194.4.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-unknown-freebsd4.5) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OcU/FKd22msVQ0Fu2UcJewJgwmY= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.208.106.64 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com Original-X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1043394957 217.208.106.64 (Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:55:57 CET) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:55:57 CET Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109402 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:5923 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5923 On 20 Jan 2003, Lee Sau Dan wrote: > > Stefan> Lots of trade offs, a fair bit of coding, even more > Stefan> testing, ... Anybody interested is welcome to tried it > Stefan> out. My opinion is that maybe it would be nice, but > Stefan> since the only application I'm aware of is "editing > Stefan> files between 128MB and 1GB on 32bit systems", I don't > Stefan> think it's worth the trouble. > > Yeah. I share this last point with you. >128MB text files are > simply weird. And for binary file, a real hex editor (or 'xxd', > which I just discovered) is a more appropriate tool, or just 'dd'. Well, it is a weird world. When working with hardware development, file sizes over 128MB is very common (netlists, sdf-files, logfiles...), although what you do with these huge files are limited. Its mainly search and replace (occur, query-replace-regexp etc). /mac