Re: Overflow file configuration?

[TBaehr@xxxxxxxx]

The overflow file problem is known to TTG (or at least to Dave Erickson), and
Dave has worked on it off and on over the years. I think he got close once,
but no cigar. I think there's a similar problem in XyWin, but it manifests
itself differently (locks up, as I recall). Upper file size limit seems to be
around 4.2 meg. At the time I was in touch with one of the older hands at TTG,
a few years ago, I was trying to edit files of 10 to 20 megs (nothing you'd
want to read; they were linguistic data files). I ended up using another text
editor and perl for the text manipulations I needed. But XyWrite would have
made things so much easier!

I think it's highly doubtful that we'll ever see a fix for this acknowledged
bug.

T.