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
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