Last night, I went to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_file#Formats
and still don't completely understand this. "Most Windows text files use a form of ANSI, OEM or Unicode encoding. What Windows terminology calls "ANSI encodings" are usually single-byte ISO-8859 encodings, except for in locales such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean that require double-byte character sets. ANSI encodings were traditionally used as default system locales within Windows, before the transition to Unicode. By contrast, OEM encodings, also known as MS-DOS code pages, were defined by IBM for use in the original IBM PC text mode display system. They typically include graphical and line-drawing characters common in full-screen MS-DOS applications. Newer Windows text files may use a Unicode encoding such as UTF-16LE or UTF-8." So, what's the difference between a Windows and a DOS .txt file. Does it matter, when reading with a DOS text editor or wordprocessor, whether I saved the file with Notepad as .txt or saved it with Wordpad as .txt (MS-DOS format)? If not, then why does Wordpad have a MS-DOS format option? I'm pretty sure that Notepad doesn't use unicode because I can't save Greek files with it and always have to use Wordpad and save them as rtf. I know that files saved as either type of .txt will read under Word Perfect and NoteWorthy but WP (including the text editor) acts strangely with VocalEyes at times, not reading complete lines and sometimes skipping lines, and I'm trying to find out why it does this. I've installed the set files for Word Perfect Office, hoping that it would solve this problem, but it hasn't done so. Interestingly enough, it doesn't do this with all files. I thought that perhaps it was word wrap, but apparently, it's automatically set to on, so that might not be the case. I need this sorted so that I can decide how to save my documents that I'll be transferring over to the DOS machine, or if it's not the formatting, then I need to learn what changes have to be made either in VocalEyes or in Word perfect so that it reads properly.. I'm currently using a KeyNote Gold laptop, which doesn't have the built-in MS-DOS editor, so I can't test my files there and NoteWorthy can't handle large files. I need to save the tutorials that I found for QuickBASIC and for batch programming, so the sooner this can be resolved the better. Thanks, Eleni For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
