Hi, On 25 Aug 2022, at 13:50, Bitácora de Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro wrote:
> I do not think it will be that easy. It is probably hitting the 16 unsigned > int range, and also accounting that large memory model only allows to > allocate blocks of up to 64K (you are looking for huge). yes, or it would need a different data structure, not a simple array for the text. Like: Gap buffer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_buffer Rope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure) Piece Table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_table More on the topic: https://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DesigningTextEditors I agree, that is major work. But there are many good (and free) text editors available for DOS that can edit large text. "edit.exe" is a simple and limited tool, but good enough for the intended use case. Greetings Carsten _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel