[argyllcms] Re: Strugglin' with scanin

Hening Bettermann wrote:
New experience with the 10 and 4GB .ti3 files: I tried to open them with TextEdit while I had the draft to this post open in TextEdit. When I selected the .ti3 and chose Open With/TextEdit, the draft was highlighted, but no new TextEdit window opened. When I returned to the draft to continue, the pizza wheel kept spinning, and I had to force quit TextEdit. (Mac 10.6.2) 

It's often difficult to deal with really large files, most normal tools
can't handle them because they expect to read the whole file first,
and often try to read them into memory.

From the command shell you can use things like "less" to browse the file,
e.g. "less filepath"
It uses "vi" type commands, so control-F for page forward, control-B for
page back, control-U for half page up, control-D for half page down.
"0G" (that's zero G) will take you to the last line, "1G" to the top line,
"/searchpattern" to search forwards, "?searchpattern" to search backwards,
"q" to quit, etc. ("less --help" will give you more info on how to use it).

If you just want to see the bottom of a file, then "tail filepath" will
the fastest way of doing this.

On OS X you can drag a file onto the command shell and it will be
converted to the file path.

Graeme Gill.

Other related posts: