Hi Paul, > One of my reflex when going to Games\Vertigo was "edit vertigo.txt" to read > the file. > It say the file is too big for this version of edit. > "edlin vertigo.txt" worked... as "less vertigo.txt"... I think the file was > 79k... not sure at all... > but I am kind of surprised that edit (and ospeditt) would be 64k limited. > > Do we want to limit it to 64k because the original MS one was (if it was)?
I don't think so. See below. > There seems to have no readon ospedit would have to be 64k limited. 64k is the size of a segment. So it's easier for the programmer to store the whole file in one segment and handle it this way in his code. Cheers, Robert -- BTTR Software https://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS ain't dead https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel