From: Chris Robinson 

Paul Ranson wrote:

> 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.
>

Yeh, we hardly have any 9x macines left now so you kinda forget the odd
thing like this.

>
> 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.

I'm gueesing you mean the other way around here?  I tried the Win2k version
on 98 but it reported a DLL it couldn't find.  Wordpad's doing fine for
now.

Thanks,
Chris.

>
>
> 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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