A weird tech question

[vvvexation]

I've got some file fragments on my computer left over from a hard drive crash a while ago, and I've been going through them looking for the remains of some text files I'd rather not have lost.  A couple of them, though, are apparently too big for me to open either with Notepad or in DOS Edit mode without the system hanging.  Is there any other program I can use to get at the contents, or is there a way I can somehow break them into pieces of more manageable size?

Comments

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

How about emacs?

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

There's also wordpad, which is standard on at least *older* versions of windows than XP (not positive about XP).

[olego.livejournal.com]

How many Megabytes are the files?

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

Can you get the textfiles onto a unix system somewhere? If you don't have login access somewhere, I can give you an account on thesane.com, probably... Then you can use vi or emacs on that system.

Also, are you sure that the files are actually textfiles?

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Go here and download utlos2.zip. What you want is an incredibly handy unix utility called strings.exe, which prints out all the strings in a binary file.