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Postby Stratobat » Fri Apr 30, 2004 4:29 pm

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

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Re: Text Files

Postby Delta_ » Fri Apr 30, 2004 4:43 pm

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!!! :o It was taking up all my memory and page file. So it is a lot.
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Re: Text Files

Postby Stratobat » Fri Apr 30, 2004 4:55 pm

Thanks, Hi-D :)

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

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Re: Text Files

Postby Delta_ » Fri Apr 30, 2004 5:25 pm

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.
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Re: Text Files

Postby Stratobat » Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:25 pm

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


Woah :o... That's huge!!!

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Re: Text Files

Postby GeForce » Sat May 01, 2004 9:02 am

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

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Re: Text Files

Postby gw » Sun May 02, 2004 4:50 pm

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.

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Re: Text Files

Postby Delta_ » Sun May 02, 2004 5:45 pm

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
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Re: Text Files

Postby Dan » Mon May 03, 2004 1:24 pm

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!!
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