From: "Robert Comer" 

> Moral of the story: don't believe everything user's tell you.

You almost had me thinking all my Win98 desktops were bad. 

- Bob Comer 


"Chris Robinson"  wrote in
message news:3E65E1E0.63D4F570{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> .... and minutes after posting I find this:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q215340
>
> "this issue can occur if the text file that you are trying to view with
> Notepad is larger than 64 kilobytes (KB). Notepad can only open files that
> are smaller than 64 KB. "
>
> OK, so here's what I think's happened:
>
> - The user has been happily opening text files for however long, thinking
> that they've been opening in Notepad when infact they've been opening in
> Wordpad.  He had a problem this morning with a text file which I think may
> be corrupt (it's a report automatically generated from a system we use).
I
> think this file (or possibly something else?) has caused Windows to loose
> the file association that says to open text files in Wordpad.  This means
> it's switched back to the default association (Notepad) and hence, the
> problems.
>
> Moral of the story: don't believe everything user's tell you.
>
> Chris 
>
> Chris Robinson wrote:
>
> > We have a Windows 98 laptop here that decided to stop opening text files
> > over about 50k in size.  The files open fine in Wordpad but for some
> > reason Notepad not longer opens them - it just gives says
"this file is
> > too big for Notepad to open, would yoiu like to use Wordpad to open the
> > file?".
> >
> > Another interesting thing is that if you try to open a file under 50k
> > (works fine) and then paste text into it that would take it to, for
> > example, 70k, then Notepad will say something to the tune of "There's
> > not enough memory to complete the request, try closing other
> > applications to free up more memory".  This isn't a problem as there's
> > plenty of RAM free (over 100Mb) and this still happens.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > I've already tried copying the Notepad.exe from a working 98 PC which
> > didn't make a difference.  I also can't see any way to uninstall and
> > reinstall it from Windows Setup (i.e. it's not listed).  I'm assuming it
> > relies on certain DLL's so I'm going to hunt around a bit more to see if
> > I can find anything?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris.
>

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