Microsoft Wordpad

[Guest]

i am inquiring about microsoft wordpad, the standard word processor with
formatting, in windows xp. it executes as either WORDPAD.EXE or WRITE.EXE.

i have an RTF file that ive started, as a sort of logging or special
documentation area, that i continuously add data to over time. i open it, add
data, save it and close it. i have been doing this for a very long time,
--for my own purposes....

my question though is, currently, this file has become 35.9MB in size (on
disk). --yes, megabytes. i am wondering, is there a limit to the size an RTF
or wordpad document can be, or is it indefinite?? i have gigabytes of space
on my harddisk, so i am not concerned about disk space, and i dont anticipate
this file to get so big it takes up many gigabytes of that space. but i am
wondering, can i keep adding to this one, singular file, or will i really
need to consider starting a secondary file to add to? is it possible,
regardless of memory or disk space, that the file, once having become a
certain size, will not open anymore, because of the programs limitations?
--or, do i have nothing to worry about?

then, i am also wondering, if i choose to add this file to a data backup
system, that maybe does not have alot of room, what are my options of
compressing the file size, other than a ZIP file, or other similar
compression medium? like, if i converted it to a DAT file, or something,
would that make the file size any smaller? what can i do?

thanks
john

 

[Richter]

my question though is, currently, this file has become 35.9MB in size (on
disk). --yes, megabytes. i am wondering, is there a limit to the size an
RTF
or wordpad document can be, or is it indefinite?? i have gigabytes of
space
on my harddisk, so i am not concerned about disk space, and i dont
anticipate
this file to get so big it takes up many gigabytes of that space. but i am
wondering, can i keep adding to this one, singular file, or will i really
need to consider starting a secondary file to add to? is it possible,
regardless of memory or disk space, that the file, once having become a
certain size, will not open anymore, because of the programs limitations?
--or, do i have nothing to worry about?

WordPad has no file size limitations
Notepad's file size limit, which is 64KB

Matt