I still suggest UltraEdit, did you try it? http://www.ultraedit.com/ultraedit-tour/hex-editor.html
http://www.ultraedit.com/support/tutorials_power_tips/ultraedit/large_file_handling.html "UltraEdit's file handling is designed to prevent it from using all the available memory" "UltraEdit has no real limit on file size" " "...I edit LARGE vital record databases. They can have 6 million lines and be 600 MB in size..." Ed M. " I don't know if it will work for you or not but believe it is worth trying or I would not have suggested it. :) Jim -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 11:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hex viewer? After three replies suggesting text editors (including one I already use), I apparently need to repeat: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > ... files of arbitrary size (i.e., doesn't read the whole file into > memory at once)? The files I am interested in viewing are too large to open in a text editor. The program needs to work by reading only the part of the file needed to display the current location on-screen, doing more reads as needed as the user moves around in the file. Just for grins, I just tried opening the file in Notepad++. Memory usage shot to almost a gig, it pinned a CPU, and then sat there, not painting. After ten minutes, I killed the process. Aside from the overall file size, the "170 million characters on a single line" is also likely giving it trouble. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
