Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!hyper.hyper.com!bonneau From: bonneau@hyper.hyper.com (Paul Bonneau) Subject: Re: HELP with Windows questions Message-ID: <1991Apr23.175620.9135@hyper.hyper.com> Reply-To: bonneau@hyper.UUCP (Paul Bonneau,,) Organization: HyperCube Inc. References: <113517@cc.utah.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 17:56:20 GMT In article <113517@cc.utah.edu> GANGFANG@cc.utah.edu writes: > 2. The EDIT controls don't seem to be able to handle more than 64k text >data directly, how can one use edit control to handle a large file? > Unfortunately, you are hitting the bad old 64k segment limit. As far as I know, this is an implementation limit of the edit control itself. So unless you can find a third party edit control without this limitation you will have to write one yourself (not a trivial task). Sorry - Paul Bonneau.