Re: Oracle Editor problems - help

Yourname_at_somwhere.COM (Your Name) writes:

>In article <31A4B80A.4B27_at_vais.net>, lroger_at_vais.net says...
>>
>>We are using the Oracle default editor to display text from a long field
>>in Oracle forms 4.5. When the text is displayed in the editor it
>>randomly truncates the display of text in the editor. The data is in
>>the database but is not being displayed correctly. If anyone has had
>>experience fixing this problem please respond. We have also attempted
>>to use other editors like Notepad, MSWord and MSWrite all seem to have
>>the same problem. Thanks in advance!
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Good old WordStar in the IBM DOS 2 days (any even in CP/M) could happily edit lines truncating them at 32K. Was slow if you were deleting characters though.

Many editors (even some implementations of vi) barf at lines greater than a disk block.

Maybe look for a versionof emacs.

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