On 2022-03-22 11:42, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:06:05 +1100, Robin Vowels wrote:
Notepad has a problem with large files.
It loads only the first part of a large file.
How large? No one should ever need more than 640K.
Rubbish.
On 2022-03-22 10:53, Bob Bridges wrote:
I
... But whenever I start up a new PC, one of the
things I do early is teach it to open .rtf documents in WordPad.
My experience, perhaps outdated:
o Notepad doesn't understand UNIX linebreaks. It opens
UNIX files appearing like stairs.
o WordPad opens UNIX files OK, but it only Saves with
DOS linebreaks.
o Notepad++ opens either format and Saves by default in
the input format.
Many Windows editors create files with incomplete last
line. Sometimes they append a SUB character.
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