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...


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