On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, '09832'045982'3049582'039458'09 wrote: > it might be better to generate just a file: > > s1 = "QX8_6"; > s2 = s1 <> ".txt"; > p1 = N[Pi, 10^6]; > Export[s2, p1] > > The generation is fine. > > But the text-editor is like frozen to show the file (Size is 1 MB). > > I copy it to a new VM, but also here it will not open. > After minutes it is now open, but all numbers a written above each other, so > I cannot read the last 3 digits. > > Why?
That's probably editor dependant so I cannot answer to the overlap problem but you could use cut command with -b switch to extract a smaller part of the data and inspect just that part. -- i.
