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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 18:21:34 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: djgpp for win NT
In-Reply-To: <5n37e0$kt@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970612182107.9257X-100000@is>
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On 4 Jun 1997, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> I assume the Windows NT notepad is different from the Windows 3.1/95 notepad?
> 
> (The latter is buggy as hell. Like it will complain it is out of memory
> for files bigger than about 64K no matter how much ram and swap you have!)

That's not a bug, that's a feature!  Notepad from Windows 3.x is
documented to have a 64KB limit (it's a 16-bit program, and they
probably didn't want to mess with selectors).

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