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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Editing a large file
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 13:02:52 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <21JAN199314094029@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <21JAN199314094029@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov>, uugblum@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (VMScluster Administrator) writes:
- >Some of our Cray programs produce very large (~80,000 blocks) ASCII output
- >files which are sent to the VAXcluster for review. TPU and EDT don't work
- >well with large files. I think the editors read the entire file into memory
- >so the performance is poor if it works at all. One work-around could be to
- >break the large file into several smaller files. Does anyone know of a DECUS
- >utility which can do this? Does anyone else have another suggestion?
-
- How about:
- $ EDIT/TECO filename
- :-)
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
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- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
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