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From: Jim Kress (jimkress_58_at_kressworks.org)
Date: Wed May 30 2012 - 20:01:18 CDT

UltraEdit runs on both platforms (and Macs) and handles large files easily.

http://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultraedit.html

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] On
> Behalf Of Andrew Jewett
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:41 PM
> To: oguz gurbulak
> Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: questions for trajectory analysis
>
> since nobody else has answered yet...
>
> "vi" is the toughest text editor which I know about.
> (A similar program "vim" is available in windows, but you're safer
avoiding
> windows for this.) Even if you can open them in "vi" or "vim", I worry it
might
> be very slow very time you want to make changes and commit them to disk
> (:w).
>
> Instead I'd try splitting the trajectory into (many) pieces using "split"
or
> "csplit".
> This might be probably a good idea anyway.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils#split-invocation
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils#csplit-invocation
> (There might be better splitter programs out there.) I hope this helps
Cheers
> Andrew
>
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:44 AM, oguz gurbulak
> <gurbulakoguz_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I want to ask some questions about trajectory analysis. I have some md
> > simulation output files that includes coordinate, force and velocity
> > information. And these files are huge ( more than 5 GB ) . Could you
> > please recommend a free text editor which works on Linux or Windows to
> > open and edit these huge files? And I will run these files with
> > fortran codes and get again huge output files . In order to do this
> > operation faster and seamlessly what should I do ? Which facilities do
> > I have on pc ? Could you please share your experiences with me ?
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Kind regards.