On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:45:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What's a workable method of opening a 300MB file that I saved > several years ago ? It's from Mozilla's email client, and it > was an unorganized Sent Mail file. It's one huge concatenated > set of emails. When I've tried to open it so far, I see 100% > memory usage right away, but after long waits (half an hour) > progress appears to slow to a crawl. When I most recently tried > to open it with Mozilla-Thunderbird, I could read the beginning > of the file (starting in 1998 !) but the screensaver came on > before it opened all the way, and that seems to put the kibosh > on finishing ... > > I have also tried OpenOffice, AbiWord, Mozilla-Firefox as well, > with about the same result. > > My system has 500MB of memory and 10GB of free disk space that I > can be sure of. > > Are there any debian app's which can handle this file ? > > It appears to be plain text ... with embedded jpg's and pdf's > of course. I would suggest using formail or similar to split this into individual file. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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