Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Large Text File Viewer v5.2 Released - A portable utility to open very large, 1GB+, text files quickly…

SwiftGear - Large Text File Viewer 5.2 – Features

“Have you ever felt frustrated when you just want to look at the content of a large text file but it takes forever for Notepad or Word to open it?

  • This program was designed for viewing large (>1GB) text files.
  • It uses little memory and is able to open a gigabyte file instantly.
  • Background file indexing makes browsing even faster.
  • It opens files that are currently being written by other programs, and automatically checks and reads the files if new contents have been appended.
  • It supports view split. The user may split the view either horizontally or vertically, and have each side show different portion of the same file.
  • It allows the user to perform high-speed complex text search by means of plain text or regular expression. The regular expression syntax is slightly different from the standard ones. Please click here for details.
  • The regular expressions for finding the following items have been provided as preset for the convenience of the users:
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    I’ve been using v4 of this utility for years (since it’s release in 2005)… Good to see it’s still alive and well.

    (via The Portable Freeware Collection - Large Text File Viewer V5.2)

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