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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:09:57 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: utility to convert records to lines ?

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In <3F25DAFB.5080305@usa.net>, on 07/28/03
at 07:23 PM, Sheridan George said:

>Would your 4+ meg file have caused the enhanced editor to choke?

Yes. It would choke very quickly. The enhanced editor is enhanced in
name only. It's got a hardcoded line length limit of 1600. PrEditor,
which is I my preferred editor, would have no problem doing what you
suggest. I would have to turn off the undo support or the processing time
would be a tad slow.

>Nah, my idea is not so good. If any of your binary data happened to be
>an ASCII space epm would have wrapped it there making a short line.

Another EPM problem. :-) With PrEditor I would write a quickie macro to
advance 83 characters and insert a NL. PrEditor's macro language is awk,
so the code would look like:

while {next_char(83))
insert_string("\n")

Steven

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