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dlprice:
Anybody know of a good large text file (multi gigabyte) viewer? 

I have used UltraEdit.  It is good, but doesn't work well as both a text editor and a large file viewer.  To move around the large file efficiently, you need to turn off line numbers and temp file... you also need to open as "read-only" to make sure you don't accidentally change the file.  And it still doesn't jump from the first line to that last as quick as I would like.

I also used LTFViewer (www.swiftgear.com) which is pretty good... but seems like that last time the author touched the program was 3 years ago.  Would be nice if it also had 'tail -f' type functionality.

muntealb:
Try EditPad Lite (free) and Pro (shareware). Both can open large files (<2 GB) very fast.

http://www.editpadpro.com/

http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

Deozaan:
I love EditPad! It's been my primary text editor and web development application for about 10 years now.  :Thmbsup:

fenixproductions:
For viewing only I recommend free version of Universal Viewer.

Personally: I am using built-in Total Commander's lister.

NigelH:
Less for Windows : multi-platform binaries + source availablel.
Tons of features, really fast and shift-f will give you "tail -f" functionality
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/index.html

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