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Dealing with large files presents no intrinsic problems for BBEdit. However, BBEdit is a RAM-based editor, and it uses system memory to hold open files. BBEdit and TextWrangler represent open documents as Unicode, which uses two bytes for each character. Combined with an internal Mac OS X limitation, this means that you can open files up to 384 megabytes in size (402,653,184 characters). To open a larger file, you will first need to split it into multiple parts, each less than 384M in size.
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