On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:06:05 +1100, Robin Vowels wrote: >Notepad has a problem with large files. >It loads only the first part of a large file. > How large? No one should ever need more than 640K.
>On 2022-03-22 10:53, Bob Bridges wrote: >> I >> ... But whenever I start up a new PC, one of the >> things I do early is teach it to open .rtf documents in WordPad. > My experience, perhaps outdated: o Notepad doesn't understand UNIX linebreaks. It opens UNIX files appearing like stairs. o WordPad opens UNIX files OK, but it only Saves with DOS linebreaks. o Notepad++ opens either format and Saves by default in the input format. Many Windows editors create files with incomplete last line. Sometimes they append a SUB character. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
