Large Text File Viewer 5.2 - Features

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• 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:
  • quoted string
  • hexadecimal integer
  • floating-point number
  • date of any format
  • time of any format
  • domestic phone number (US & Canada)
  • social security number
  • IP address
  • email address
  • http address
  • ftp address
• For CSV (Comma Separated Value) files, when the user hovers the mouse over any field in the file, a hint automatically  appears with the field name.

• The program opens and displays both ANSI and Unicode text files. It currently does not support Unicode big endian and UTF-8.
• It allows the user to change display parameters, which include:
  • font, font style, and font size.
  • colors of text, selected text, and URL.
  • background color and background image. (The user may use any JPG or BMP file as the background image. A sophisticated algorithm is used to soften the image and then blend the softened image with the background color perfectly.)
  • word-wrap length in character. (It is zero i.e. disabled by default.)
  • tab size.
  • automatic detection of URL addresses (namely HTTP, FTP and email addresses).
• Display parameters are automatically saved and associated with filename extensions.
• You may use mouse wheel to scroll the content vertically or horizontally, or to increase/decrease the font size.
• You may use drag-and-drop to open a text file. The program remembers recently opened files.
• It remembers the window position/size of the previous run.

• Large Text File Viewer 5.2 requires Windows NT and up. It no longer supports Windows 9x.
• No additional DLL (such as MFC or VB) is required.
• No installation is needed.
• The executable is only 572KB!

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This page was last modified on 06/05/2009.