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From: Harry Broomhall
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 00:00

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On Mon, 16 Mar 1998 00:18:38 GMT, Phil Purle
<phil@fielding.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>haeb@pc60.demon.co.uk (Harry Broomhall) wrote:
>
>>Microsoft seem to have a
>>habit of not fixing old bugs in software.  e.g. the famous calculator
>>bug in Windows, and the limit in filesize of notepad, even under Win95
>>where there is no excuse for it!
>
>Curiously the NT4 version of notepad doesnt bother to do the check,
>but still doesnt work.  I clicked on a 30MB .txt file which NT decided
>to open with notepad, and after a pause it said my 80MB swapfile was
>too small.
>

    Now why am I not surprised......



    Regards,
           Harry.

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From: haeb@pc60.demon.co.uk (Harry Broomhall)
Subject: Re: Y1.996K
Date: 1998/03/16
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