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title: "Quill With An Ill Will"
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excerpt: "Recently, I stumbled across an anomalous (actually, berserk might be more like it !) behavior of Quill during the attempted editing of a large (106060 bytes) imported file. Memory should have been no problem; I was operating with Super Gold Card 2.49, with the assistance of Minerva 1.97."
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# Quill With An Ill Will

Recently, I stumbled across an anomalous (actually, berserk might be more like it !) behavior of Quill during the attempted editing of a large (106060 bytes) imported file. Memory should have been no problem; I was operating with Super Gold Card 2.49, with the assistance of Minerva 1.97.