[GRASSLIST:4662] Re: big ASCII

[Roger Miller]

Petra,

Vi can take care of a lot of editing needs, even with files that are 
formatted with columnar data.  As long as your hardware is capable, Vi can 
also handle very large files.

I also use StarOffice Calc for editing large files - some considerably larger 
than 8 mb.  StarOffice usually opens any variety of text file in a word 
processor.  To open a text file in a spreadsheet in Star Office 5.2 you must 
select the option <Text-txt-csv (StarOffice Calc)> in the file open dialog 
box.  If you select any other form of text file you get a word processor 
document.   StarOffice Calc can also write text files.


Roger Miller

On Saturday 05 October 2002 13:12, Petra Wallem wrote:
> Hi, I am finally getting used to the GRASS commands and having fun
> exploring the program, dough a problem showed up. I am importing files from
> SeaDAS, a satellite image processing program. The output are ASCII files,
> which are big (8MB), and I have to edit those files before importing them
> into GRASS as site maps. I have tried all the spreadsheet program I have in
> Linux (gnumeric, kspread and Star-Office) non has worked. Either the text
> output files have a strange format that GRASS is not accepting, or they
> don't open the ascii file as spreadsheet, instead as text which is not nice
> format to edit a 15000 or bigger line file...
> Can any body recommend me a spreadsheet program that reads big ASCII files
> and has an ASCII output option?
> That would be grate help, as on INTERNET I found a lot and I am not sure
> for which option to go.
> Thanks a lot and have all a very nice day!
> Petra