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From: Tom Bird
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 00:00

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Phil Purle <phil@fielding.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<350f6e36.3892786@news.demon.co.uk>...
> 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.

NT4 notepad can open anything.  RAM allowing, of course.

TB

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From: "Tom Bird" <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Y1.996K
Date: 1998/03/16
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