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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I've always used just Notepad without any issues. I don't even have Notepad++ installed.
Never understood why folks say you shouldn't use Notepad.
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Because notepad inserts CR and LF. Only windows, DOS and CP/M works like that for a newline. Potentially a FW update might not like that. Just about everything else uses only a LF character. Obviously a printer driven by ASCII needs CR and LF to go to start of a newline, so there was a certain logic to the CR and LF of CP/M, inherited by DOS (a copy of CP/M) and then Windows before NT (since 1993).
Notepad++ is free and Windows (NT) Notebook is rubbish, though not as bad as Win9x/ME/Win1 to 3.x Notebook which could only read 64K as if an 8 bit cpu.
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CP/M may have copied DEC usage.
Multics in 1964 was the first to use LF only. A printer driver would add a CR.