On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 08:47:09 +0000, Jack wrote:
>Notepad was a great product. Than W11 came and MS improved it.
>
On my desktop I tried:
printf 'foo\000bar\n' >x.txt
then inspected the file with several facilities.
Vim and less display the \000 as "^@".
BBEdit as highlighted "¿".
TextEdit truncates the line at that point.
Cat simply elides it.
I prefer to be alerted to anomalies. Therefore I would consider the
Win 10 Notepad treatment unsatisfactory.
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gil
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