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Devine Lu Linvega

I was thinking about the macintosh's Note Pad application today, I couldn't remember if there was a limit to the data it could store, if you could access the data anywhere, so I had to look it up.

There's a limit of 8 pages, there's also a pretty cute little detail here where the top-right corner of the fold brings you to the next note, and the other to the last note.

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Devine Lu Linvega

It looks like there is a note pad file that is saved automatically in the drive after all.

mcc

@neauoire Pretty sure if you take that apart you'll discover it's just 8 TEXT resources. All the basic system 7 apps were absurdly transparent to resedit

Devine Lu Linvega

@mcc I hadn't! thanks for showing me, I'm glad they felt inspired to put this together :)

mcc

@neauoire This also works with the "scrapbook" files (even the late scrapbook version that accepted Quickdraw 3D objects) and I think the "clippings" in the drag and drop support in OS 9 are just resources (because they actually are literally the data that would be stored in the system clipboard). And you find some definitely interesting stuff if you open the system suitcase in resedit

Devine Lu Linvega

@mcc just checked in resedit. it's just 8 text files :)

mcc

@neauoire so I guess the question is if you add additional text resources does it add extra pages

Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)

@neauoire Probably also the usual TextEdit Manager limit of 32K (per note in this case)?

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