SDL_reader -- a simple, effective, crossplatform .txt reader that 
supports both CPM-style and UNIX-style text files with ASCII and UTF-8 
encodings.  Written by Tyler Montbriand, 2008.  As a whole it is 
distributed under the GNU GPL, portions of it are under other licenses.

I can't believe I had to create this, but I did.  Ladies and gentlemen, 
here are some interesting facts:

1) Pocket Word cannot load a 500KB .txt file.
2) Pocket Internet Explorer lags like a lagging thing on the laggiest 
day of the year having a particularly laggy kind of day when loading 
html files multiple hundreds of KB in size.

And that's terrible.

SDL_reader maps the text into memory instead of loading it, and just 
stores offsets of pages instead of rendering the whole thing all at 
once, which avoids a lot of overhead.  It also maps the font file into 
memory.  It expects the font file, unifont.bin, to be in c:\unifont.win 
on windows, /unifont.bin on Windows CE, and 
/usr/share/SDL_reader/unifont.bin for UNIX.

Commandline syntax:

SDL_reader [-fg 000000] [-bg ffffff] file.txt

Arrow keys and pgup/pgdn flip through pages, ESC quits.  Lines are wrapped.

It also comes with the font_maker program, which is used to convert GNU 
Unifont .hex files into the .bin flat files used by SDL_reader.  If the 
system supports it, it will produce space-saving flat files.