Large txt Files

From: Danforth, Douglas <"Danforth,>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:15:06 -0500

Folks,

I ran a test on the time it takes to open a large .txt
file using BlackBox as compared to using Wordpad.
Here are the results:

File length = 5.25MB

Program Opening time
Wordpad 0.481 seconds
BlackBox 41. seconds

So BlackBox takes 100 times longer than wordpad.

The BB documenation says .txt files are converted to
BB Documents which I assume accounts for the long
opening time.

The time for Wordpad was measured using Services.Ticks()
surounding HostDialog.Start(..). The BlackBox time
was determined using wall clock time after doing a
menu selection of Files->Open (select file) ->Text.

The slowness of examining large txt files causes me
to use Wordpad rather than BlackBox. Am I doing
something wrong? Is there another way to speed up
the open process under BlackBox or is this endemic
to the txt to odc converter?

-Doug

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