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handling large text / log files

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:33 pm
by jamie
hi there!
I'm a support engineer for VERITAS, some functionality we would really like is handling for very large log files (approx 1 gig) we use textpad as a debugging tool, however when we encounter a large log we have to use another viewer. Textpad would be great with this functionality, rather than loading the entire text file into memory, just a portion could be loaded at a time

Jamie

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:38 pm
by crackwitz
I would like this feature too.
Maybe up to, say, 10 MB are loaded into memory, files beyond are not.
This would require you to set such files as read-only, track modifications and apply these when saving or apply modifications instantly.
If you decide to implement this feature, and decide to track modifications, in hex mode it could also be nice to highlight modified passages of data.