Re^2: Displaying/buffering huge text files

I have a sinking feeling that mmap is not supported on Windows... I will check it more thoroughly, though, thanks.

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Re^3: Displaying/buffering huge text files by graff (Chancellor) on Oct 06, 2005 at 21:33 UTC
I realize this is probably to late to be be of use for your text-viewing task (which is presumably solved by now), but for future reference, you might want to look up a Windows port of the UNIX environment and tools provided by AT&T Research: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/. The ATT "UNIX for Windows" package is called "UWIN" (how clever?), it's free/open-source, and I noticed that the description of features includes: Memory mapping and shared memory: Both mmap() and the system V shared memory facilities are provided.	[reply]

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Re^3: Displaying/buffering huge text files
by graff (Chancellor) on Oct 06, 2005 at 21:33 UTC

The ATT "UNIX for Windows" package is called "UWIN" (how clever?), it's free/open-source, and I noticed that the description of features includes:

Memory mapping and shared memory:
Both mmap() and the system V shared memory facilities are provided.