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Think Big

No.. No.. This is not yet another philosophical post. 


I was in need of opening large text files. Large in order of 2+ GB for a single text file. 



  • Tried with notepad. Result : Need to press Ctrl + Alt + Del to rescue my comp
  • With Notepad++, my favourite text editor, it was struggling to open it. 
  • Tried with Wordpad, Office 2007 Word etc.. Not satisfied with the performance.



Then found Large Text File Viewer. A freeware. Sized only 367 KB . 


http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/Large-Text-File-Viewer.shtml


To my surprise it was opening the large files without even a single second delay. An awesome tool esp. for my current need. 


The features of this tool are:


· It uses little memory and is able to open a gigabyte file instantly.
· Background file indexing makes browsing even faster.
· It allows the user to perform high-speed complex text search by means of plain text or regular expression. The regular expression syntax is slightly different from the standard ones.
· The program opens and displays both ANSI and Unicode text files
· Display parameters are automatically saved and associated with filename extensions.
· It supports mouse wheel.
· You may use drag-and-drop to open a text file. The program remembers recently opened files.
· It remembers the window position/size of the previous run.



Really a workhorse.

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