Will Audacity edit LARGE Audio files?

[FSD_KY]

I've seen Audacity and Goldwave recommended many times here as audio editors. Do they work for large audio files? A friend has CDs of public speaking that were recorded directly to CD and last around an hour. Its one large file that needs to have lulls or sounds edited out. I assume that means the whole file would have to be downloaded to the pc then edited and the new file burned again. Would Audacity do this? If not, I would appreciate any recommends. Roxio's Sound Stream wouldn't do this would it?

Thanks

[reboot]

Audacity, Goldwave, Soundforge, whatever...size doesn't matter, providing you have the room on your hard drive.
Personally, I use Goldwave a lot for simple stuff, and Soundforge for the more complicated.
I have no idea what Roxio Soundstream is, I won't let Roxio anything, anywhere near my computers.

[FSD_KY]

I've had a lot of problems with Roxio myself lately. Thanks for the information, reboot.

[ComputerNut]

To me it seems that whether Audacity can handle large audio files or not, really depends on your system specs. If you have a good CPU, RAM, HDD space, etc. then it will work efficient. If not....well you know the rest.

HTH,
CN