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What's the most amount of data a .txt file can hold?

Regards,
Stratobat

Well i tried to find out by pasting lots of times in notepad until it ran out of space.  Well i ran out of memory!!! It was taking up all my memory and page file. So it is a lot.

Thanks, Hi-D

Been wondering because I've been getting large text files from friends lately (over 280 Kb).

Regards,
Stratobat

Well i had another go and kept going until my system slowed right down, i saved it and opened it in Word.  I did well over 100 million characters and the file was sized at 100MB.  They zip up nicely though.  The 100MB txt file zipped up to 100kb.

I did well over 100 million characters and the file was sized at 100MB.

Woah ... That's huge!!!

Thanks, Hi-D

Regards,
Stratobat

Yes, when I'm bored I often try to make the largest text file I can. My best is currently 238.4 Megabytes .

That killed my computer

Jon

Windows has a limit of 2GB for the size of any file whether it's text or anything else.  Most text editors can't handle this, though, because they like to read the whole file into memory but if you had one that only read in the parts that were immediately needed you could do it.

gw

It can be fun, i managed to get one over 500MB a minute ago, i was too tired to do anything else, it took half an hour for it to finally stop, my system was at a crawl.  :D

I made a 32,768 page doc in word 2000 on an old Celeron 400Mhz (I think) at work. I had to Ctrl alt del out!!
Dan