in reply to Memory issue while opening and reading a file

My $sigdata file is a flat text file about 3 Gb ... My System details are like Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26 GHz 1.00GB of RAM.

Swapping space nonwithstanding, isn't it a bit ambituous to try to squeeze a 3GB file into 1GB of RAM?

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Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>