Hi Bill,
Just one point, Noted does handle at least 20 mB files and I'm sure
I've loaded larger ones still.
Cheers,
Roger Pickard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Re: Vista


> Hi Lawrence,
>
> "...the real problem is that there are several lines of
> continuous text
> with little obvious structure."
>
> Thanks for mentioning this. As has been suggested, the problem
> means
> that 'guide.dat' is being written with each line ending in a line
> feed
> (standard on Unix and Linux systems), rather than with a carriage
> return/
> line feed (used, sometimes but not always, on DOS/Windows) or a
> carriage return
> only (used on Macs).
>
> _Most_ text editors written in the last ten years or so will
> handle this
> difference so that you'll never even know it exists. Notepad,
> annoyingly
> enough, is an exception. (Notepad also hasn't even been updated to
> handle
> large files.) Every now and then, someone will ask why they can't
> read
> file X using Notepad, and I revise file X to be in DOS/Windows
> form.
> Not many editors have problems with that.
>
> -- Bill
>
>
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