K.-P. Kirchdörfer wrote:
If you can edit leaf.cfg with a decent editor (not adding CR/LF) like notepad,
I was curious about this because my recollection was that notepad didn't handle <LF>-only files very well and I made these observations (I'm running XP Pro SP-1 and the notepad program that comes with). When I described below how I opened any file I had, in advance, removed all <CF> with the DOS2Unix proggie. A hex-viewing of the files confirmed that DOS2UNIX was doing what I expected...
- notepad displays the <LF> as a box-like character and doesn't start
each line on a new line like one would expect - one is presented with a
continuous stream (line) of characters
- in a file of 5 lines with each line having only 1 character (hey, I
was just quickie testing) plus the <LF> I was presented with 5
box-characters and no single-char-per-line characters that I had therein?!?!
- in a file with multiple blank lines at the top I was also presented
with a stream of box-chars but no single-char-per-line chars
- if one has multiple lines in the notepad doc and one saves it, then
one gets the <CR><LF> end-of-line action
- at one time I had opened & saved a file with notepad (making no changes to the file) and notepad had prepended two chars to
the file - 0xFE & 0xFF
So if I may, I'd probably not suggest use of notepad to people as it doesn't play nicely with <LF>-only files. I am guessing that it looks at the first 1 or 2 chars of a file and makes some determination about the filetype, and doesn't recognize <LF>-only-delineated files very well.
My suggestion is for people to edit any files to their heart's content with their editor of choice and when done, run the DOS2UNIX utility which strips the <CR> chars. It works under pure DOS as well as a DOS box under XP (and I would expect 9x, ME, 2K, NT as well). It can be d/l from: http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/micro/pc/simtelnet/msdos/txtutl/dos2unix.zip
Thanks for LEAF!
scott; canada
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