From: "Robert Comer" 

> I think you could take the Win9x binary to NT and have it open a huge
file,
> unless MS have locked the versions together to prevent it starting.

Easy enough to test ... Nope, if you copy the win98 version of notepad and
execute that .exe on a WinXP machine, you get the WinXP version of notepad.
(By using the "help -> about" menu item.

Interesting -- I wonder if NT4 acts the same ... Yep, same.

So the exe sounds like it may just be a function call to the edit control
like you say, with no smarts itself.

- Bob Comer


"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:3e661a0c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> It's not so much Notepad that has the problem but the edit control
> implementation in Windows, which is 16bit in Win9x and 32 in every version
> of NT ever. Wordpad uses the Rich Text control which was new for Win9x so
is
> 32bit. I haven't seen anything Windows but W2K and XPVarious for so long
> that this is like a trip down somewhere smelly and dank.
>
> I think you could take the Win9x binary to NT and have it open a huge
file,
> unless MS have locked the versions together to prevent it starting.
>
> Paul
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:3e660603$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > 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 
> >
> >
>
>

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