Yes, that kind of display goes *way* back. And back then you had so little memory that you only wanted to load small slices of a file. I don't know what others do on Windows, but I have a small *head.cmd* script that uses awk to do the job (for text files, not binaries).
On Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 5:08:08 AM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 6:53 PM Thomas Passin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sometimes it is useful to view the first N bytes of a file without >> reading the whole file. > > > This tool reminds me of tools I used ca 1980 at the dawn of the personal > computer age. > > Edward > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/23afab4b-f3df-4417-8c71-a105fffc07c3n%40googlegroups.com.
