Re: [SurvPC] editor for DOS

[L.D. Best]

Clarence,

WordStar isn't a text editor.  I have been up-against-the-wall with
large text files before ... too big for EDIT, too big for Qedit, too big
for any editor I had in my collection.

That was when Wordstar was put to work in Nondocument mode; but the time
it takes to work from one section of the file to another can be horrid
even with a Pentium system. :<  You have to remember that WS does not
use protected mode, and every time you move in the document beyond a
certain point there are TWO temp files written to the HDD.

There will *never* be a "perfect" text editor.  What is needed is a big
fat clue stick to remind people that 9Mb files of text are DUMB DUMB
DUMB!  };>

l.d.

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