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

"Flynn, Peter" <[email protected]>
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On 18/07/14 03:04, Xiao, Yongshun wrote:

>> 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).

There is no known limit to the size of file that TeX can typeset.

There *are* serious limits on the size of file that an EDITOR can EDIT.
Your problem is that your editor is running out of space. The solution 
is to use a better editor.

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

No.

> 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).

That is also true.

///Peter
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