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- Subject: Re: Editing large files with TPU
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 01:20:43 GMT
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- In article <01GO0EHHKABK0007D3@BENTLEY.BITNET>, KPETERSO@BENTLEY.BITNET writes:
- > I am trying to EDIT/TPU (EVE) a 29553 block file and coming up
- > with errors. When I EVE the filename, the machine thinks about
- > it, then I recieve the following error message:
- >
- > 2098 byte record to large for users buffer
- >
-
- Neither the size of the file, quotas, or the system are involved.
-
- TPU has an internal record buffer of fixed size. I should remember what it is,
- but I don't right now. Either 1024 or 2048. I suspect the latter.
-
- Your file has at least one record of 2098 bytes. That blows TPU out of the
- water. There is no way to edit such a file with TPU as far as I know. SED
- should work on it, though. (No, I don't remember where to get it, either.
- (Senility!)
-
- Since 2098 is a bit long for a normal text file, maybe it is corrupt, or maybe
- you can use FILE or CONVERT to make it more manageable. For things like
- PostScript files, FILE/RECORD_SIZE=128/TYPE=FIXED is pretty handy. But don't
- try this on a variable record file. You may get total hash. I'm assuming that
- the file is a stream type or a fixed type, already.
-
- R. Kevin Oberman Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Internet: koberman@llnl.gov (510) 422-6955
-
- Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing
- and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.
-