TITLE
    SimpleText: Document Too Large To Be Opened
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Created:
Modified: 		24923
5/27/99
6/10/99
TOPIC

    When I try and open some documents created with SimpleText, I get the error:

    "This document is too large to be opened by SimpleText."

    I tried assigning more memory to SimpleText and I even quit some open programs. Neither worked. Can you help?

DISCUSSION

    SimpleText can only open text documents that are smaller than 32K in size. Assigning more memory to SimpleText or quitting other programs is useful when memory is low, but that is not the case here. SimpleText has had a limit of 32K since it first appeared as TeachText with System Software 7.0 in 1989. SimpleText relies on a set of routines in the Mac OS called "TextEdit". TextEdit is a collection of routines and data structures that give applications basic text formatting and editing capabilities, including text display in multiple scripts. TextEdit manages fundamental text processing tasks on text limited to 32 KB. For detailed information about TextEdit, see the following section of Inside Macintosh (a developer publication):

    http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Text/Text-40.html

    SimpleText uses TextEdit because TextEdit works very well with the many different languages that the Mac OS and SimpleText support.

    To open text documents which are larger the 32K in size, one should consider a freeware, shareware or commercial text editor or word processing program that can open larger text documents.

Document Information
Product Area: Apple Software
Category: SimpleText & TeachText
Sub Category: General Topics
Keywords: ksts

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