[nflug] converging large mail files

[joshj at linuxmail.org]

When we last left our adventurers...

> Why use an editor at all?
>
> cat smallfile >> bigfile
>
> then rename at will...

For the record: vi will handle a 15M file no problem because vi whips ass.


>
> Cheers!
>
> Bob
>
> --- eric <eric at bootz.us> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to converge two email files one is 15mb and the other only 76kb.
>> I am pretty sure that if I use vi to open the larger file and then copy
>> it to the begining of the other smaller file that something bad will
>> happen or it will take a long long time to open, cause it's giantic.
>> Would using some kind of emac command be a better solution?
>> Thanks for your input,
>> Eric
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