On 2007-05-30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[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 > > 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. >
It is plain text, in mbox format I think. It is the same format used by mutt, and gnus can also work with it. I don't know about the maximum file size for those programs though. Any text reader/editor can potentially open it, if it's not too big. If nothing else, less should work, maybe. I'm assuming the embedded images will just come out as garbage. As a plain text file you can cut it into pieces using standard command line tools like head and tail - with some experimenting you could hack it into 5 or 10 pieces and work with it that way. I've done this on occassion with files that were bigger than the maximum emacs buffer size. HTH, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]