Re: Reading portions of large files

[Mac]

On 20 Jan 2003, Lee Sau Dan wrote:
> 
>     Stefan> Lots of trade offs, a fair bit of coding, even more
>     Stefan> testing, ...  Anybody interested is welcome to tried it
>     Stefan> out.  My opinion is that maybe it would be nice, but
>     Stefan> since the only application I'm aware of is "editing
>     Stefan> files between 128MB and 1GB on 32bit systems", I don't
>     Stefan> think it's worth the trouble.
> 
> Yeah.  I share this last point with you.  >128MB text files are
> simply weird.  And for binary file, a real hex editor (or 'xxd',
> which I just discovered) is a more appropriate tool, or just 'dd'.

Well, it is a weird world. When working with hardware development,
file sizes over 128MB is very common (netlists, sdf-files,
logfiles...), although what you do with these huge files are
limited. Its mainly search and replace (occur, query-replace-regexp
etc).


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