On 09:45 Wed 30 May , [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
I recently opened and was browsing a 250G file with less. It was an .xsession-errors file that filled my home directory! I also was able to open it with vi I believe (can't swear). Emacs barfed on it though :). grep worked nicely on the file too. I was able to see fun things. I did have 2G of ram but doubt that made much difference - the file was 250G! rm of the file took a while. Mitchell > 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. > > Thanks, > George > George Langford > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.georgesbasement.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
