Re: Abiword cannot load *.txt file

From: Jonathan (j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 19:58:35 EDT

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    On Monday 13 October 2003 06:26 pm, Jonathan wrote:
    > Abiword 2.0
    > FreeBSD 4.8
    > compiled from ports
    > gcc-2.95.4
    > ORBit2-2.8.2
    > freetype2-2.1.5_1
    > fribidi-0.10.4_1
    > autoconf-2.53_1
    >
    > I tried to load a 1.5 MB text file with Abiword 2.0 and it consummed
    > almost all my swap space ( used 255 Mb in one case).

    OK it turns out that it overloads the Ted word processor too.

    bash-2.05b$ wc -lw emacs.txt
       38430 238477 emacs.txt

    Evidently the XML or rtf word processors can only load smaller documents ?

                                            Kind regards,

                                            Jonathan

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