Aucbvax.1553 fa.info-cpm utzoo!duke!mhtsa!eagle!ucbvax!JWP@MIT-MC Sun Jun 7 23:30:46 1981 Editing large CP/M files Those of you who are having problems (EHUANG, etc.) editing large files on their CP/M system aught to look into "WorkStar (tm)" by MicroPro. They have very extensive interfacing procedures (if not overly so) to hook up to most any display and printer. A daisy wheel type incremental printer is what it seems best at (ie. I have an NEC 5520 and it does magical things with it). You can hook Wordstar up to your screen if it is memory mapped (makes things 20 times faster). Anyway, It pipelines the file you are editing so the file size is limited to disk space available. If you keep WordStar on one disk (it takes up that much) and use the other disk for editing, there are almost no problems with size. Of course, if you only have one floppy drive (double density at least) then you really should have two anyway; anything else is cretinous... ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.