Re: Is there an upper limit to the size of a file, say, a.tex? [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

David Allsopp <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Organization MetaStack Solutions Ltd.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Xiao, Yongshun wrote:
> UNOFFICIAL
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I am editing a pretty large file, and my file starts to close down, but it
> can still be edited on a bigger machine (more space and more rem).

How big is "pretty large" and what precisely does "starts to close down" mean?

> I suspect that there is an upper limit to the size of a tex file.

TeX has various limits on memory usage, but the only limitation on file size I expect is anything indirectly imposed by the underlying OS (given that any file could simply be typed interactively into TeX).


David

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