E.memoryArea not working on ESP8266 (due to char-iterator ?)

Thanks. Using the offset works ok- I'm wondering if there is a way of hiding this transparently like Flash() lib does?

I was expecting the esp8266.getFlash() to return these larger regions, it doesn't look like this is implemented yet.

I also believe these is a restriction of 1mb max, and that this is in the espurino core rather than the esp8266 implementation. Does anyone know why this is the case?