hexeditor for files over 1GB ?

[wedgetail]

In my partition recovery effort to my amazement photorec has saved a number of pdf files over 1GB. I would like to peek inside at least to see a few of the top lines. 

Okular seems to keel over trying to open them, and it is slow.

Any suggestions to a really fast editor capable of handling 1GB and over 

[TerryN]

I'm not clear if you want to just look at them or edit them.  To look at
I usually go to command line and use hexdump -C filename | less
or strings filename | less

Terry.

P.S. hexdump won't look beyond 2GB as it isn't compiled with large file support.  I had to get the source and produce a modified version for looking at files over 2GB :-(

[wedgetail]

TerryN
thanks it is a start, so far I have at least 4 over 2G I need a peek into. I was looking randomly in 20GB plus recovered files in hundreds of directories and randomly picked a html file to open:

/here/recup_dir.306/f46455616.html  the page opened instantly in fireFox but a bit fossicking in the code and reconstruction came up with the real thing

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Editors/Hex/

My eyes almost took an about turn     I had to add this here.

[TerryN]

Maybe you should do the lottery today 

[T6]

"In my partition recovery effort to my amazement photorec has saved a number of pdf files over 1GB"

photorec is kinda dumb with files over 800 mbs

those you recovered could be mpg or avi files, or could be just garbage

if you had those files, edit pdf you need a pdf editor, the structure of a pdf is complex viewing it with a hex editor

about a hex editor capable of handling files this big

there is a windows hex editor, very popular, can't remember the name now, it almost could handle a 22mb file i tried to load, anything over 500 mbs is a waste of time i think

[TerryN]

Yeah, the annoying thing about the GUI hex editors that I've tried is that they insist on loading the whole file at start up which can be a Bad Thing (tm) with a large file