From: aka AT pair DOT com (ak) Subject: RE: ASCII and BINARY files. Why? 30 Jan 1997 02:49:20 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC0E63.324A1BC0.cygnus.gnu-win32@alan.dialup.westnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Envelope-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-To: GNU-WIN32 , "'Grant Leslie'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Try using pfe32 (programmers file editor) been using it for two years with no trouble best yet it's free get it at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/ ---------- From: Grant Leslie[SMTP:grantl AT deerinet DOT nb DOT ca] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 1997 8:43 PM To: GNU-WIN32 Subject: Re: ASCII and BINARY files. Why? > Korn's paper on UWIN says that he found that "many programs that run > on Windows NT do not require the in front of each in order > to work. This difference turned out to be less of a problem that (sic) > we had originally expected." I don't have enough experience to > evaluate this claim. > Personally in my experience Notepad is the only windows program that cares about the thing when loading the file, edit.com will load stuff properly, however it will save with the , as will Write (Wordpad) and any other Windows text editors. Wouldn't life be better if MS had though about Unix text files when writting software??? ;-) - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".