On Thu, 16 May 2002 11:29:02 -0400 Harry G wrote: > Guess that is what I get for writing an email before caffeine is > consumed. Sorry. > > Here is the full story. >
> Most reporters use either Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, or believe it or > not, DOS. Each has a different program they write the report in, but > they all save in ASCII format. The office uses Windows for now (I am > trying to change that) and want to be able to open the doc for the > above reasons with no changes. > > I have opened these files in Windows with Notebook, and Wordpad, but > they all change things, i.e. the little boxes at the end of each line. > I have not tried it yet in Linux, and wanted a head start on this > before I am given a "test" transcript. > Vim runs on windows too, by the way. And it handles DOS files on Linux correctly (it recognizes that it is a file with DOS eol's and does the right thing). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Alan K. Jackson | To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
