From: Chris Robinson 

Robert Comer wrote:

> > Moral of the story: don't believe everything user's tell you.
>
> You almost had me thinking all my Win98 desktops were bad. 

Muhaha, that was my evil intention really ;)

>
>
> - 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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