hi go to ms knowledge base  and type in    Q218632 that should get you
wordpad
back again i had the same trouble so far mine is still working ok  j.w.
christian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Turak" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] WordPad Problem


> You can open a dos box.  At the prompt enter
>
> Edit "filename.txt"  (including the quote marks)
>
> where filename is the complete specification pathname of
> driveletter:\folder\filename
>
> you only need the quote marks if their is a long name in the pathname
>
> edit will open some pretty big files.  I don't recommend using it for edit
> or viewing, but you should see at a glance why it is crashing wordpad.
> There is probably something binary in the very beginning, and you may be
> able to change it enough to allow wordpad to work.
> Tom Turak
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Camerons [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:54 AM
>
> I've been trying to open a text document that was posted on a friend's
> website, but after I download the document, and select Wordpad to view it,
> it get the good old "illegal operation" message.  I tried using Notepad
but
> it says the document is too large for Notepad.  I don't have any other
> program that will open text documents.
> Mary Cameron
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