atw: Re: Notepad
- From: Stuart Burnfield <sburnf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:14:12 +0800
Hi Erica -
>Does anyone know whether there are any restrictions to the number of
>characters allowed per row in a notepad file? Are there any other
>restrictions e.g. size of file?
I just tried repeat-pasting a block of text into an empty Notepad
file. Although word wrap was switched off, the text dropped to
a new line after 1024 characters, so I guess that's the maximum
line length in Notepad.
Then I copy-pasted a block of these 1K lines repeatedly until I
got bored at about 20 MB. Notepad was able to save and open the
file at this size. Possibly Notepad itself doesn't have a hard
limit on file size, but it depends on the memory and disk capacity
of your PC.
Even if Notepad's 1024 byte line limit isn't a problem for you, I
urge you to try Textpad or one of the many other excellent text
editors out there. I just used the 'join lines' feature in Textpad to
merge over a thousand lines from my test file into one line of
over a million characters. Presumably sufficient for most tech
writing needs ;^)
Cheers
Stuart
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Stuart Burnfield
Information Developer
Australian Programming Centre
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