Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

["bilbo" <bilbo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12 Feb 2001, at 9:55, Lenz Grimmer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
> 
> > When I open some files in Windows Notepad I see a solid black square
> > in places that appear to be blank in Kedit. Why the difference, and
> > does anyone know what the black square is?
> 
> Linux/Unix does use different control characters to indicate the end
> of a line. Try to covert your file with "unix2dos <filename>" before
> viewing it with a DOS/WIN text viewer.
> 

Slightly OT but possibly useful, in order to learn more about *nix I 
have installed Emacs ,cygwin and perl on windows, so you can 
see the same thing in both OS! I also have a small text editor call 
"Programmers File Editor", it's no longer developed but still 
available. This little gem will handle both win and *nix control 
characters seamlessly. If emacs is a bit big for editing small files 
on windows, pfe is a wonderful replacement for notepad -no file size 
limits for instance...

regards,
        Bill