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Offline motorollin

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Re: Notepad Page Limit?
« 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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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Notepad Page Limit?
« Reply #1 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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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Notepad Page Limit?
« Reply #2 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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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Notepad Page Limit?
« Reply #3 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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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Notepad Page Limit?
« Reply #4 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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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10