Date   : Thu, 14 Jun 1990 23:31:08 GMT
From   : sci34hub!cdthq!gary@uunet.uu.net (gary)
Subject: CP/M text editors

dave@compnect.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes:
> [ Dave recommends WordStar 3.3 ]
> [ ... ] BTW, I haven't run into any problems
> with files to large for it either. 

I understand that it is limited to 512K. This from a friend who
had to edit a 1.5MB database, of which 1MB vanished upon exiting
WS. Apparently, the convention for handling files over 512K
involved a different section of the directory entry, and WS
didn't (and probably still doesn't) know about it.

I used to use Vedit; it was supposed to handle a file half the
size of the drive (had to create the temp file....).

Gary Heston, at home....