[xied75]

Yes, I was speaking of 64bit. My assumption was that in the field of NGS no one would still run 32bit.
Maybe I'm wrong ... don't know ...

Simon

1, Then the URL you gave doesn't have 64 bit downloading there, which confuses me.

2, In the field of NGS lots of people still don't able to tell the difference between 32 bit OS and 64 bit. When I did my porting of samtools to X64, people complain that it doesn't run on their Windows.

Best,

dong

[sisch]

1, Then the URL you gave doesn't have 64 bit downloading there, which confuses me.

Sorry for the confusion, I have to withdraw my suggestion of using Notepad++ for large files. It seems my mind extrapolated too much of my memory I checked back on my windows machine (which I'm not using too often):
1) Notepad2 was the 64bit program I had in mind.
2) But Notepad2 doesn't open large files either (I also found Vim for windows installed, so I think I used that for the 25GB file I mentioned)
3) Notepad++ was on my mind, because I did all the downstream stuff with it (opens files up to ~700MB).

2, In the field of NGS lots of people still don't able to tell the difference between 32 bit OS and 64 bit. When I did my porting of samtools to X64, people complain that it doesn't run on their Windows.

I have to keep that in mind.

[mattanswers]

I have used LTP Viewer, if you want to quickly view a large file as well as search within it, but not much as an editor.

http://www.swiftgear.com/ltfviewer/features.html