Text Viewer
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
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Media2r wrote:
Perhaps a winform with an IE control with saving disabled
:laugh: How about a freakin' TextBox?
I just skimmed earlier posts prior to posting mine, it seemed someone mentioned some limitations with textboxes. I admitedly have no clue if they are accurate, I haven't done winform dev for aaaaages. That said, a multiline readonly textbox (assuming text length limitation prognoses is incorrect) would be sexier. And I'm all for sexier. //L
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
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It takes VS 2008 20 seconds to start on my machine, and at least 8 seconds to compile the most basic app....
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drive yourself...
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
http://www.textpad.com but open the file in read only mode. Even in read/write mode, I've opened 16mb files before with little decrease in speed.
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Christian Graus wrote:
Is the 32757 line limit a major issue ? Because the rest seems easy to deal with. Just don't make it read only, but write code to reject all keypresses.
Yes, it is! We have Basic Log Files, which record transactions in ASCII, and which would cover up to six years of trading. The biggest sofar contans 425,000 lines. it is not accessed very frequently, but, the concern is that we have no tool to access it which disallows modification. Notepad loads it Sofar No Problems, it Takes a Long Time, No Problem, but it facilitates modification.
Bram van Kampen
Can you just make the file read-only?
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
I'm with Don M. For reading looooooong log files you want a version of Tail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail\_(Unix)
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
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Christian Graus wrote:
Is the 32757 line limit a major issue ? Because the rest seems easy to deal with. Just don't make it read only, but write code to reject all keypresses.
Yes, it is! We have Basic Log Files, which record transactions in ASCII, and which would cover up to six years of trading. The biggest sofar contans 425,000 lines. it is not accessed very frequently, but, the concern is that we have no tool to access it which disallows modification. Notepad loads it Sofar No Problems, it Takes a Long Time, No Problem, but it facilitates modification.
Bram van Kampen
Cygwin "less"? It's a file viewer with navigation and string search. It has no editing features directly, but there's a way to get into the vi editor from it. It might be possible to disable that or maybe it just doesn't work if the editor isn't installed? If you had to, you might be able to get the source and disable the command for entering the editor. Less should load such a large file pretty quickly, though I don't think I've tried it on anything quite that big. Not in recent memory, anyway (I tend to use vim for viewing my large log files). Also, vim also has a read-only mode that you can specify from the command line, but I can't recall if there's any way to orderride it and write changes back to the original file. Even if you can't, you can still modify the file and write your modified copy to a different file.
patbob
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
How about something like dman nfo viewer? I haven't tried loading large things with it, but it might fit your bill.
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How about something like dman nfo viewer? I haven't tried loading large things with it, but it might fit your bill.
Or not. 500K max. Nuts.
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Cygwin "less"? It's a file viewer with navigation and string search. It has no editing features directly, but there's a way to get into the vi editor from it. It might be possible to disable that or maybe it just doesn't work if the editor isn't installed? If you had to, you might be able to get the source and disable the command for entering the editor. Less should load such a large file pretty quickly, though I don't think I've tried it on anything quite that big. Not in recent memory, anyway (I tend to use vim for viewing my large log files). Also, vim also has a read-only mode that you can specify from the command line, but I can't recall if there's any way to orderride it and write changes back to the original file. Even if you can't, you can still modify the file and write your modified copy to a different file.
patbob
This may be an overly simple response, or it may not factor in you organizations security concerns which may or may not be unique. Why not just post the files some where and view them in a web browser, and disallow editing on the server end... Ie r--r--r-- permissions. I would imagine this would involve a very simple script to copy the files, and a very simple page to display a list of the files. Additionally I would make a note that a web browser can be launched from your executable as required.
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
The one I switched to when Vern Buerg dropped the ball on a Windows version of his program "list," is called "V." You can find it at fileviewer.com, and it's very inexpensive and works very well. I've been using it for more than 15 years. Rick
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
It seems like everyone is taking a much too difficult approach to answer the original post. (sorry, hadn't seen the full thread) There are, in fact, several viewer applications that will open a text file for viewing but not editing. Here's a couple: Universal Viewer Free[^] Large Text File Viewer[^] And from the same collection site, here's a couple categories that might have something else that could work for you: Text Viewers[^] and Document Viewers[^]. Hope that helps! :-D
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Cygwin "less"? It's a file viewer with navigation and string search. It has no editing features directly, but there's a way to get into the vi editor from it. It might be possible to disable that or maybe it just doesn't work if the editor isn't installed? If you had to, you might be able to get the source and disable the command for entering the editor. Less should load such a large file pretty quickly, though I don't think I've tried it on anything quite that big. Not in recent memory, anyway (I tend to use vim for viewing my large log files). Also, vim also has a read-only mode that you can specify from the command line, but I can't recall if there's any way to orderride it and write changes back to the original file. Even if you can't, you can still modify the file and write your modified copy to a different file.
patbob
Any browser will read text as read only, but I have never tried on big files. If you make the directory read only for the users, but write access for the program that makes the log files, you can use any text viewer/editor. Textpad is much faster than Notepad, and it also has a useful search function plus many other features. -Ulf
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
"cat" or "type" depending on OS.
