Difference between WRITE and WORDPAD in XP?

[Maerko]

What is the difference between WRITE and WORDPAD in WinXP?

I notice that the executables are very different sizes:

WRITE.EXE is 5,632 bytes (5.5 KB) dated August 23rd 2001
WORDPAD.EXE is 200,704 bytes (196 KB) dated August 29th 2002

However the two products seem functionally quite similar.
Can someone explain the difference between them.

 

[Juan Pablo Barrios [uy]]

WRITE is an executable left there for compatibility purposes only... it runs
WORDPAD each time it is executed.
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[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

What is the difference between WRITE and WORDPAD in WinXP?

I notice that the executables are very different sizes:

WRITE.EXE is 5,632 bytes (5.5 KB) dated August 23rd 2001
WORDPAD.EXE is 200,704 bytes (196 KB) dated August 29th 2002

However the two products seem functionally quite similar.
Can someone explain the difference between them.

Hi

Write.exe is just a stub that launches Wordpad.exe (look under the
Processes tab in Task Manager after running Write.exe, you will
only find Wordpad.exe there).

 

[relic]

What is the difference between WRITE and WORDPAD in WinXP?

I notice that the executables are very different sizes:

WRITE.EXE is 5,632 bytes (5.5 KB) dated August 23rd 2001
WORDPAD.EXE is 200,704 bytes (196 KB) dated August 29th 2002

However the two products seem functionally quite similar.
Can someone explain the difference between them.

Write (Notepad) is a remnant of the early Windows days, but the main
difference is Wordpad can handle much larger files.

 

[relic]

Write (Notepad) is a remnant of the early Windows days, but the main
difference is Wordpad can handle much larger files.

Nevermind. I confused Write with Notepad.

 

[Tim Slattery]

What is the difference between WRITE and WORDPAD in WinXP?

Write is an extremely basic word processor. It's been around since the
Win3.x days, I assume it's been updated since then, but I don't know.

WordPad is somewhat more capable. It's basically a *very*
stripped-down version of Word, and can read some *.doc Word files.

If I had to choose between the two, I'd take WordPad. But I'd far
rather use a real word processor, like Word or the OpenOffice word
processor.