Friggin' huge text file!!!

I need a windows application to view a 1 GB log file (text file). Word tops out at 512 MB, notepad, notepad++, gvim, and wordpad can't open it. I don't happen to have a linux box handy to load the file on so I can run "tail".

I'm at a loss. Any ideas?

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tiersten

Try TextPad.

shednik

Baretail says it has no size limit.

LukeQuake

shednik wrote: »

Baretail says it has no size limit.

I've opened a 5 gig log (.txt) file with TEXTPAD before, it took a while but it got there in the end!

KGhaleon

I had textpad open a file which contained all the works of shakespeare.

rfult001

I had textpad attempt to open this file and it crashed my system. Stupid 1GB of RAM...

Baretail looks cool. Gonna try it out.

rfult001

Baretail FTW! This is a nice little log viewer, much nicer than using notepad.

tiersten

rfult001 wrote: »

I had textpad attempt to open this file and it crashed my system. Stupid 1GB of RAM...

You need enough RAM + swap to be able to load the file. Buy more RAM :P

rfult001

Work computer sucks, unfortunately. I have another system with 4GB next to me but I am using it for software testing and it would've been a pain to transfer the file to that system as it is not allowed on the network in its current state. Oh well.

tiersten

rfult001 wrote: »

Work computer sucks, unfortunately. I have another system with 4GB next to me but I am using it for software testing and it would've been a pain to transfer the file to that system as it is not allowed on the network in its current state. Oh well.

Uninstalling Microsoft Bob might speed up your work PC

Go ask your boss nicely for some extra RAM...

Ahriakin

Kiwi Log Viewer is another option.

rfult001

I tried the Kiwi free version but it is limited to 700 MB

blargoe

Open it in Internet Explorer (rename it to txt or html)