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Title: Notepad Page Limit?
Post by: Super TWiT on May 03, 2010, 05:31:10 PM
I was trying to make a document that could be read in an amiga computer, so I assigned More as the tooltype of my document. I noticed however that WB 1.2 and older didn't have More, so I decided to use Notepad. Notepad looked to be displaying my document properly, but upon further inspection it cutoff like 2 or 3 pages from my document. Is there some kind of limit on how much text you can open? If so, what would be a good application to use to make sure my document reads in as many amigas as possible?
Title: Re: Notepad Page Limit?
Post by: motorollin on May 03, 2010, 05:46:19 PM
IIRC all versions of Workbench come with Ed, so you could assign that as the default tool. It's not as nice to navigate, but it should open on older versions of WB.

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moto
Title: Re: Notepad Page Limit?
Post by: Super TWiT on May 03, 2010, 05:50:12 PM
Where is Ed located at? I didn't see it in the system utilities folder
Title: Re: Notepad Page Limit?
Post by: motorollin on May 03, 2010, 05:53:14 PM
Quote from: Super TWiT;556461
Where is Ed located at? I didn't see it in the system utilities folder


It's in C:

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moto
Title: Re: Notepad Page Limit?
Post by: motorollin on May 03, 2010, 05:55:46 PM
Alternatively, this might help you:

http://aminet.net/package/text/show/S-Text

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moto
Title: Re: Notepad Page Limit?
Post by: Super TWiT on May 03, 2010, 06:00:43 PM
When I try to use Ed, I get a software error "Task held Finish ALL disk activity"
Title: Re: Notepad Page Limit?
Post by: motorollin on May 03, 2010, 06:14:17 PM
Quote from: Super TWiT;556465
When I try to use Ed, I get a software error "Task held Finish ALL disk activity"


Maybe ed doesn't like being called from Workbench. Does it do the same thing if you try to use ed from a shell?

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moto
Title: Re: Notepad Page Limit?
Post by: Super TWiT on May 03, 2010, 06:20:35 PM
When I try to launch ed from the shell, I get insufficient free store. I am looking at S-text though, as it looks really useful.
Title: Re: Notepad Page Limit?
Post by: motorollin on May 03, 2010, 06:25:36 PM
Quote from: Super TWiT;556469
When I try to launch ed from the shell, I get insufficient free store.

Maybe the file is too big for ed to handle :confused:

Quote from: Super TWiT;556469
I am looking at S-text though, as it looks really useful.

Might be the best option, as everything (the text and the viewer) is self-contained within an executable. No need to worry about external viewers that way.

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moto
Title: Re: Notepad Page Limit?
Post by: bbond007 on May 03, 2010, 07:40:32 PM
Quote from: Super TWiT;556465
When I try to use Ed, I get a software error "Task held Finish ALL disk activity"


How much RAM does this computer have? Sounds like you are trying to open a document larger than the amount of available RAM.
Title: Re: Notepad Page Limit?
Post by: Super TWiT on May 03, 2010, 08:02:31 PM
S-Text worked, but how can I create an icon for it so its obvious for others?