Subject: REQUEST: pico editing not in memory

From: Bob Byers <bob@hsph>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 12:37:29 -0500

I've noticed that pico reads in an entire file into memory. This is a
problem when you want to edit a huge file. On a UNIX system, for example,
a single user can cause serious performance degredation by pico-ing a file
that pushes the system into a high paging rate. 

[our users are so comfortable with pico via pine, they've taken to using
pico as a standalone text editor]

Are there any plans to release a version of pico that doesn't read an
entire file into memory? 

-Bob Byers
 Harvard School of Public Health
 Boston, MA 02115