Show HN: Portable Giant File Viewer

(github.com)

35 points | by sunny41 7 days ago ago

11 comments

  • zemlyansky 4 days ago ago

    A browser-based alternative made with JS and streams: https://statsim.com/preview/

    • sunny41 3 days ago ago

      I was excited to hear about this and had a try. It seems it is not possible to jump to the end of the file.

  • quyse 4 days ago ago

    As an alternative, on Windows I've always been using Far Manager [1], it supports viewing files of arbitrary size without loading them in RAM. Supports encodings, search, doesn't explode on binary files, etc.

    [1] https://www.farmanager.com/

    • knowitnone 4 days ago ago

      Everything that is viewed is loaded in RAM or am I wrong? Perhaps it can load partial file? This looks like midnight commander.

  • cmiller1 4 days ago ago

    The linked page appears to be down, I get an "Access to this site has been restricted" error.

    • sunny41 3 days ago ago

      Do you still get this error now?

  • sunny41 7 days ago ago

    As AI is hot recently, there is also some AI in this tool -- the app icon is made using AI.

  • knowitnone 4 days ago ago

    Less can be downloaded but I apprecaite you for this tool

  • atmanactive 7 days ago ago

    What about the colors? Dark mode? Is that hard-coded or adjustable?

    • sunny41 7 days ago ago

      Dark mode will be available in a week. The colors are hard-coded currently, but I can make it adjustable.