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PhilB66:
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.
-dlprice (July 30, 2008, 10:51 PM)
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Large Text File Viewer 5.0 is now available! (updated 8/3/2008) The major changes are:

* LTF Viewer 5.0 now opens any file that is currently being written by another program. It automatically checks and reads the file if new content has been appended.

* LTF Viewer 5.0 now supports view split. Now the user can split the view either horizontally or vertically, and let each side display different portion of the same file.

* LTF Viewer 5.0 now supports word-wrap. For fast response, word-wrap is controlled by a word-wrap length in character rather than the window width in pixel. The reasons are:

* Word-wrap is a slow process for large files, and the use of a font with varied width makes the process even slower.

* The user usually changes window size frequently.

* For your convenience, the following functions using mouse wheel are available:

* Use mouse wheel alone to scroll the content vertically - this function is available in previous versions.

* Use mouse wheel and the shift key to scroll the content horizontally.

* Use mouse wheel and the control key to increase/decrease font size for current file type.

* Based on the request of some LTF Viewer users, a shortcut key (Escape) is added for closing the current window (including any dialog box and the main window).

* Various bugs have been fixed. LTF Viewer 5.0 is much more stable than its previous versions.
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PhilB66:
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.

-dlprice (July 30, 2008, 10:51 PM)
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Yeah, i think so. you can do it with that.  :-* <Link Removed> my friend told me that website had got gold of all kinds of games. do you know that or bought gold form that??
-hjfyyytd (December 30, 2008, 07:33 PM)
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edit by jgpaiva: removed link from quote ;)

Darwin:
Awesome, Phil, you’ve outdone yourself this time  ;D

sajman99:
Just a simple thanks to dlprice, 40hz, and others for the LTFViewer link. I had never heard of it before, but now it's in my arsenal of text tools.

f0dder:
Nice one, Phil :)

I know the next is pretty oooold, but I decided I might as well comment on it since I saw it now:

I'm pretty sure my current fav text editor (Notepad++) could handle a file that big, but I can't say for sure since I don't have currently have any text files that size to test it with.-40hz (July 31, 2008, 02:00 PM)
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Nope, Notepad++ (which is my favorite editor as well) performs miserably when dealing with files of relatively few megabytes in size. This is mainly because it uses the Scintilla edit control, which really wasn't designed for huge amounts of text - and working around that would be really clunky.

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