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by info Oct 10, 2001 last reply Jan 9, 2002

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I have a text file with the size of 1GB. I am unable to open it with the windows notepad due to the size of it. Can any one tel me what is the best way to open it or breake it in to the smaller files. Thank you very much for your response. Moe

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by richtee Oct 11, 2001

You can use MS Word. In addition, WordPad can also be used to open files larger than the capacity of notepad.

Rich

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by bohicam1 Oct 11, 2001

MS word won't open files that big either, word pad will though, just takes a while.
Good luck!

Mike

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by joseph moore Oct 15, 2001

There are a lot of old DOS tools out there that can handle a text file of that size. One I have carried around since 1996 is called SE.EXE
A nice, little DOS text viewer. It has no size limit, as far as I remember.
PEDIT was another one that could do large text files.
I would search for some text editors/viewers that worked with DOS. Sure, you lose all of the buttons/icons/drag'n drop stuff, but it works!
You can e-mail me for info.

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by bojidar alexandrov Oct 16, 2001

With UltraEdit you will make this.
http://www.ultraedit.com/

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by vm Dec 14, 2001

If it's an ascii text then the better tool seems to be the Far Manager. Take it at http://www.rarsoft.com
Good luck.

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