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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
. . . The standard program for text file on Windows was Notepad, and Notepad was stupid. When it encountered the LF character it advanced to a new line, but there was no CR so it didn't home the cursor. Users saw a stair-step in the attached file, and it was hard to read. I had to insert a step in the script that turned all LF characters into CRLF combos to produce output users could read. (Editors I used all understood *nix conventions and displayed the files properly.)
I think Notepad on Windows is a bit smarter these days, but since the first thing I do is replace Notepad with something better, I don't know for sure.
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Dennis
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I've always loved Notepad if for no other reason than it doesn't do formatting beyond allowing global changes in font and don't sizes. It comes in quite handy when copying formatted material when you want the information but not the decorations and links. Sure, Word offers a choice when pasting to keep the source our destination formatting, but that's an additional hoop to jump through that isn't present in Notepad.
Unfortunately, the Word apps for iOS and Android don't open Notepad files, so if I want to open a file with one of my mobile Word apps, it can't be in plain text format. At least, they didn't open those type files last time I checked.