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Dump of the header blocks of a Windows file?

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Nobody/Anonymous
2008-08-01
2012-11-13

  • Nobody/Anonymous

    Nobody/Anonymous - 2008-08-01

    Hi

    I have a big file on my windows NT (14Gb) and I need to have a look at the content of the first 5 - 10 blocks of that file.

    In linux I would just do something like 'head -100 <file> | od -c'. How can I do something similar with notepad++ in windows?

    Thanks - Martin

     

    • Sune Marcher

      Sune Marcher - 2008-08-01

      I hope this is a joke - NP++ is *not* suited for tasks like this :)

      You need an editor that doesn't try to load the full file into memory. I don't know any text editors that behave this way (but surely there must be some!), so I'd suggest you find a hex editor.