Re^3: Reading a VERY LARGE file with SINGLE line as content!

This is a misunderstanding. The disk system (hardware, micro-code on disk hardware, I/F board (hardware and also micro-code) in conjunction with O/S driver and O/S does a lot. I have a prototype IBM drive that after 11 years is failing. I lost a Seagate and a WD drive last year during a massive power failure.

ALL of these sub-systems thing fail. I am not saying different. The question appeared to be "how to do I simulate a failure"? I tried to help with that question. All hard drives will fail. It is not "if". It is just "when". I tried to help simulate "when". Update:

OP says that he has 120+ MB of data and no "\n" line breaks. I don't believe that because it is so far out of the norm that a question is reasonable.

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Re^4: Reading a VERY LARGE file with SINGLE line as content! by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Jul 18, 2009 at 15:35 UTC
I wonder whether the 1st 2 paragraphs may be in answer to another thread i.e. a cross posting ? As for your disbelief, I, for one, _can_ believe it - consider, for example, the case when a file is created in a *NIX environment and then subsequently processed on a Windoze box...or the case when the file comprises a data file. A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]