From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading huge files Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:39:16 +0100 Message-ID: References: <8642ba650701081417n3c658d33v6dbf743a9bd30c7c@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168414834 8520 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2007 07:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 10 08:40:31 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 1H4Y4O-0008UY-0u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:40:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4Y4N-0001qF-NN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:40:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Trace: individual.net TdMD7qzXbNqlh8j8yVsRaA7LUwCFcPL5QS57+oMAKcGLe2Utc4 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gw/bOkVH/ubo/mGbhY1pC1e61uc= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144605 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:40209 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > If this is a 32-bit machine, then the Lisp integer overflows at > 256MB. If that's a 64-bit machine, then you don't need any tricks > to edit 700MB files. Okay. Then I probably never scrolled that far when I tested :) I guess the head + tail trick would work though, I suspect those tools does not have this limitation.