I would recommend a great program (free for personal use, too) called EditPad. www.editpadlite.com
It will open files as big as the OS will store. It also doesn't gag and get sluggish when dealing with large files. Edits ASCII as well as binary. Mike -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Importing files > 2GB From: Fred Taylor <fbtay...@gmail.com> To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 2/22/2012 5:57 PM Sounds like you'll need to find a tool that can break up the file into<2GB chunks and process the pieces. Or you may be able to use a language like Python to parse the file and use ODBC to add the values to a VFP table(s). Fred On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:08 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC< mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > On 2/22/2012 4:37 PM, Fred Taylor wrote: >> I don't think the VFP LLFF work beyond 2GB. >> >> Yep, it's in the Visual FoxPro System Capacities under miscellaneous. > 2GB >> max. > I figured as such. So what now, Mr. Peabody? Do we jump into way-back > machine? :-) (Nearly everyone here is old enough to get that reference!) > > > -- > Mike Babcock, MCP > MB Software Solutions, LLC > President, Chief Software Architect > http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com > http://fabmate.com > http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/4f45825f.2040...@ggisoft.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.