BBEdit has handled HUGE files for me in the past... though not quite the size you describe:

> As part of my day job, supporting an old legacy PC app, I've just been
> handed a log file that's....er....11 GB in size.
> So...before I write some code to split this file up, I was wondering if
> there are any text editors for OSX (or earlier) that don't try and read
> all the file in before viewing? Something that loads the file in chunks
> perhaps?

And Barebones Software makes a new free app for just such viewing, TextWrangler 2.0. It requires a pretty recent version of OS X, though... See www.barebones.com/ .

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