text editor for 370 MB text file

[FTR]

I archived my Thunderbird project emails and got a 370 MB text file.
This file should be readable by evaluators that will work with Outlook.
So I guess the best way is to archive the emails as text and provide
some text editor that can read them. But the file is really large, 370
MB. I guess the standard text editors like Notepad or Office Suites like
OpenOffice will not behave in a friendly way if I try to open such a
large file. Any idea for a heavy duty free text editor that can handle
the file?

Frank

 

[Qutickle]

But the file is really large, 370
MB.

Come on, don't be a wimp, it's not that large. I read four 370 Mb text
files files everyday. ;-)

Qutickle

 

[Sietse Fliege]

I archived my Thunderbird project emails and got a 370 MB text file.
This file should be readable by evaluators that will work with
Outlook. So I guess the best way is to archive the emails as text and
provide some text editor that can read them. But the file is really
large, 370 MB. I guess the standard text editors like Notepad or
Office Suites like OpenOffice will not behave in a friendly way if I
try to open such a large file. Any idea for a heavy duty free text
editor that can handle the file?

ListXP http://www.listxp.com/

For viewing (and searching and copying) only. Not for editing.

 

[Al Klein]

I archived my Thunderbird project emails and got a 370 MB text file.
This file should be readable by evaluators that will work with Outlook.
So I guess the best way is to archive the emails as text and provide
some text editor that can read them. But the file is really large, 370
MB. I guess the standard text editors like Notepad or Office Suites like
OpenOffice will not behave in a friendly way if I try to open such a
large file. Any idea for a heavy duty free text editor that can handle
the file?

Vi, if you're really masochistic. (If that doesn't completely do you
in, there are even more painful editors.)

 

[El Bandolero]

Il Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:44:09 +0100, Qutickle ha scritto:

I read four 370 Mb text
files files everyday. ;-)

quick reader!
Once I read Tolstoj's War and Peace in 20 minutes
it deals with Russia
(W.Allen)

 

[Gary R. Schmidt]

Vi, if you're really masochistic. (If that doesn't completely do you
in, there are even more painful editors.)

Now, now. Vi is not painful, and to be a completist, neither is Emacs.

They are merely, like all good tools, devices that you have to _learn_
how to use.

Like a manual gearbox in a car, they reward those who make the effort to
learn them, and those who don't (or won't) simply try them never realise
how much better life can be.

And please, let's _not_ have another editor war, I went through them
back in the 80s, and the shell wars, and it was all such crap. Whatever
editor works for you, works for you. If you think yours does something
better than mine, tell me about, maybe I'll look at it. If I don't,
don't be a twit.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

 

[David]

I archived my Thunderbird project emails and got a 370 MB text file.
This file should be readable by evaluators that will work with Outlook.
So I guess the best way is to archive the emails as text and provide
some text editor that can read them. But the file is really large, 370
MB. I guess the standard text editors like Notepad or Office Suites like
OpenOffice will not behave in a friendly way if I try to open such a
large file. Any idea for a heavy duty free text editor that can handle
the file?

Frank

Why would OpenOffice, or any office suite, have problems?

 

[Ben]

I archived my Thunderbird project emails and got a 370 MB text file.

Any idea for a heavy duty free text editor that can handle
the file?

JujuEdit, hands down. Discovered this a month or so ago and it's
absolutely fantastic - it has an Open From Disk option which means the
file is accessed directly rather than loaded entirely into memory to
view. I've been using it for crunching through access.log files of over
600mb with no problems. Max file size supported is 2Gb at the moment,
but I think they're working to improve this...

http://www.jujusoft.com/software/edit/

HTH

Ben

 

[george1234]

They are merely, like all good tools, devices that you have to _learn_
how to use.

I like tools that are just plain obvious how to use, video redo plus
comes to mind. I've seen the same functions obsdured beyond despair in
"good" tools like virtual dub

 

[PDFrank]

Any idea for a heavy duty free text editor that can handle
the file?

You need The Gun, son.

http://www.movsd.com/thegun.htm

 

[FTR]

You need The Gun, son.

http://www.movsd.com/thegun.htm

It works, thanks for the hint!

And why does a text editor need such as violent name? With a cartridge
as program icon?

 

[Caesar Romano]

It works, thanks for the hint!

And why does a text editor need such as violent name? With a cartridge
as program icon?

Perhaps you haven't noticed, but it's a very violent world out there.
Perhaps the name just reflects the author's awareness of that.

If you are one of the fortunate few who haven't experienced violence,
well then, good for you.

 

[Sietse Fliege]

It works, thanks for the hint!

And why does a text editor need such as violent name? With a cartridge
as program icon?

According to its Readme.txt: "TheGun (Grown Up Notepad)"
(Also: "21st Century Missile Ware" ?!)
You could of course just rename it to TheRose and use Resource Hacker to
change its icon accordingly.

My problem is that it can't handle really big files (or can it)?
JujuEdit and ListXP access the file directly rather than load it
entirely into memory to view.
Which means it roughly uses the same little amount of memory,
practically independent of file size.
TheGun does not seem to do that:
"the maximum size that can be loaded into it is determined by available
memory and loading speed of the file. It can typically load files in
excess of 10 megabytes with no problems"
Well, something like 7 MB seems to be no problem, but when I tried it
with a 35 MB ASCII file, it turned out to be completely useless! It
seemed to never stop loading the file (until I killed it) with peaks in
memory usage of 200 MB. Something seemed to go complete wrong.
(Not to mention that it cannot display unicode files.)

Am I the only one having problems with files of this kind of size?

 

[Sietse Fliege]

JujuEdit, hands down. Discovered this a month or so ago and it's
absolutely fantastic - it has an Open From Disk option which means the
file is accessed directly rather than loaded entirely into memory to
view. I've been using it for crunching through access.log files of
over 600mb with no problems. Max file size supported is 2Gb at the
moment, but I think they're working to improve this...

http://www.jujusoft.com/software/edit/

Nice find, thanks!
I have only tried out loading big files: 35 MB ASCII and 70 MB Unicode.
At first glance very comparable to ListXP.
But JujuEdit lets you also edit and looks to have some nice features.

One note though: quoting http://www.jujusoft.com/software/edit/dev.html
"Status: beta test Current Version: 1.43b Built: August 10, 2005"
"It is stable enough for me to trust as my primary text editor; i've
lost data through a crash only once (several months ago)"
A couple of known issues are mentioned there which you may want to know
about before installing.

During installation it displayed a message box with:
"This is your first use of this test version of JujuEdit.
This version will expire (Sunday, 1 October, 2006), after which time you
will be invited to check online for a new version."

 

[Clive Savage]

It works, thanks for the hint!

And why does a text editor need such as violent name? With a cartridge
as program icon?

I`m curious, what sort of text file is 370Mb size??


Bye for now.

Clive.

 

[FTR]

I`m curious, what sort of text file is 370Mb size??


Bye for now.

Clive.

2 years of email messages incl. attachments

 

[John Corliss]

My guess is that the program author was very frustrated with a
particular problem that he/she designed the software to deal with. Maybe
(s)he was killing some demons.

2 years of email messages incl. attachments

Just an idea...

I too have a lot of archived email. However, I broke it up into various
folders based on who it's from and-or what it's about. Maybe breaking
the archive into smaller chunks might help?

--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc, for instance. No
adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware,
PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware,
viruses or warez for me, please.