From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Large files Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:07:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: <41E42784.6020002@freenet.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105525837 19098 80.91.229.6 (12 Jan 2005 10:30:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 12 11:30:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Coflm-0006gk-00 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:30:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CofxN-0008TM-6l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cofin-0007mi-Pw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:27:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cofil-0007lN-IY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:27:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CofgD-0006zl-G7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:24:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.224] (helo=smtp06.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CofPG-0004bR-96 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:07:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.184.162.157] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp06.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.103 #184) id 1CofPC-0008K4-00; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:07:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: <41E42784.6020002@freenet.de> Original-To: cweinberg@freenet.de X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23299 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23299 Am 11.01.2005 um 20:22 schrieb Carsten Weinberg: > how about disk file editing? IMO this is a so-called "feature" that an underprivileged OS might need. When you don't have tools as on UNIX or Linux that can deal efficiently with data you might develop the idea of reading some GB from disk to retrieve a few bytes. Since mature file systems have a journal it's not recommended to bypass this system and "edit" inodes or the journal on disk directly. Besides, isn't there already tar-mode? Doesn't it allow to manipulate an even compressed set of archived files? If you feel better with that power at your finger prints ... Sometimes I do have to deal with enormous archives, wanting to 'look inside' before doing anything. I get often asked then whether I really want to do it -- and than sometimes it fails to open and view the archive because of limitations. OK! From the command line I can have a look into too, not that comfortable, but at least with the help of UNIX I am a bit as flexible as Flexi Girl ... -- Greetings Pete If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. --Albert Einstein, 1929