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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've opened 4GB files with notepad++ before. Sure, it takes several minutes (I basically have to go away and do something else, or leave it loading in the background) but it gets there, eventually.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

NP++ straight up tells us it's too big to be opened...