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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers how to edit large files using vi Post 2985 by Optimus_P on Thursday 14th of June 2001 10:55:39 AM
Old 06-14-2001
i ran into a problem with vi about 2 months back when i was tryng to edit a file that was all one line and went one for about 7 pages. (using ms notepad) vi couldnt open the file.

i ended up justing cat i beleave to view the file. you could also try breaking the file up if you can.
 

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read-notepad(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   read-notepad(1)

NAME
read-notepad - Connect to the Palm handheld device and list the record information found in the Notepad application. Alternately, if no options are given, each record's image will be converted to files, using Portable Network Graphic (.png) or Portable Pixmap (.ppm) format. The default type is ppm. SYNOPSIS
read-notepad -p <port> --list --type <type> DESCRIPTION
read-notepad allows a PalmOS 4.0 or later user to read the data stored in the Palm Notepad application and extract the data into images and convert them to Portable Network Graphics (.png) or Portable Pixmap (.ppm) files. OPTIONS -p --port <port> Use device file port to communicate with the Palm handheld device. If this is not specified, will look for the $PILOTPORT environ- ment variable. If both are not found, will fall back to /dev/pilot. -h --help Display help synopsis for read-notepad -v --version Display version of read-notepad -l --list List picture information found on the device instead of converting them to image files -t --type <type> Specify the output picture type. Can be either "png" or "ppm". USAGE
The program will connect to the target Palm handheld device, and list or convert the records and images found in the Palm Notepad applica- tion to Portable Network Graphic (.png) or Portable Pixmap (.ppm) files. KNOWN BUGS
read-notepad has no known bugs. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs at http://bugs.pilot-link.org/ AUTHOR
read-notepad was written by Angus Ainslie <angusa@deltatee.com>. Free Software Foundation Palm Computing Device Tools read-notepad(1)
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