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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

304.0. "Help with EDITORS !" by CESARE::ZABOT (Marco Zabot-Adv.Tech.mgr-Turin ACT) Thu Feb 05 1987 13:24

	Since a while I've been storing on the VAX most of the sources
	coming from USENET. Finally a week ago I brought my Amiga into
	the office and uploaded [ :-) ] the file to my Amiga using VT100
	emulator ( Thanks Dave!). No problem. Size = 700000 crts.
	Then I tried to split this big file into components.
	All the editor I tried wanted to have the whole file in memory. I
	got only 512 k.... I used: EMAS, UEDIT, Microforge, ED, LSE etc..
	There is no single SCREEN editor that accept it! The only way I 
	worked out has been thru the line editor:

	EDIT BIGFILE
	: to /dfn:little1/
	: 3500n
	: f/From:/          <-- this means a new messagge from usenet
	: cf /dfn:little1/
	: to /dfn:little2/
	....
	: cf /dfn:littlelast/
	: stop
	
	Then I started using EMACS on little files ( limit around 150000K).
	Any better suggestion ?
	marco.

BTW, my EMACS works only with 1.1. Someone got a version running under 1.2 ?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
304.1	EMACS with 1.2	ELWOOD::PETERS		`Thu Feb 05 1987 14:43`	7
	My 1.2 enhancer package came with MicroEmacs on the extras disk. And your right that Micro Emacs requires the file to fit in memory, lucky for me EMACS on the VAX will edit anything. Steve Peters
304.2		ECC::JAERVINEN	impersonal name	`Fri Feb 06 1987 04:39`	2
	What's the 1.2 enhancer package?
304.3	It's 1.2	TLE::RMEYERS	Randy Meyers	`Fri Feb 06 1987 06:56`	10
	Re: .2 >What's the 1.2 enhancer package? That is the name of the upgrade for version 1.2 of Kickstart and Workbench. It includes three disks and a 77 page manual. On the third disk is a new version of Basic plus many utilities (Emacs, Font Editor, etc.) In the US it costs $15. It is still a little hard to get copies, though. Stores sell out of their shipments fairly quickly.
304.4		ECC::JAERVINEN	impersonal name	`Fri Feb 06 1987 07:50`	3
	Hmmm.. a bit different than here. Mine came with 1.2 (and 1.1) and a few others disks - like a Music demo but no Emacs...
304.5	Font Editor?	DRUMS::FEHSKENS		`Fri Feb 06 1987 10:45`	5
	I have heard several times that there is a font editor on the 1.2 extras disk - mine doesn't seem to have one. What gives? len.
304.6	not the job for an editor?	TRUMAN::LEIMBERGER	Bill Leimberger	`Sat Feb 07 1987 03:01`	9
	I was thinking that it might be better to shar your files on the vax and unshar them on the Amiga .It would be faster to break them out at the Vax shar them and then simply unshar them after downloading. I just came across a version of uue,uud for the Amiga so you could decode the executables at the Amiga . I have a version of Shar that I found on a disk with some other material from DBW but haven't had time to try it out yet . bill
304.7	no more?	TRUMAN::LEIMBERGER	Bill Leimberger	`Mon Feb 09 1987 03:06`	8
	re: 304.5 I believe mine has it,I also believe it was a freebe that was extended to the early versions of 1.2 .I seem to recall something about the font editor being released to developers only and that it was not to be included in the standard 1.2 upgrade .It could be that CBM has indeed stopped shipping the font editor with 1.2 bill
304.8	I got one of the first ones	HYSTER::DEARBORN	Trouvez Mieux	`Tue Feb 10 1987 08:45`	5
	My "enhancer" package came with the Font Editor, Emacs, a memory monitor and a couple of other public domain things. Randy