Re: [Correction] Text formatting in perl (do I always have to open the txtfile in landscape view?)

2005-03-01 Thread John Doe
My apologies, I have to withdraw the following > You can't just change the suffix of a file to make it readable by an > application as open office. OO is not a text editor dealing with human > readable text; OO stores it's .swx files in a binary format (eventually as > compressed XML, I'm not sure

Re: Text formatting in perl (do I always have to open the txtfile in landscape view?)

2005-03-01 Thread John Doe
Hi Harold You can't just change the suffix of a file to make it readable by an application as open office. OO is not a text editor dealing with human readable text; OO stores it's .swx files in a binary format (eventually as compressed XML, I'm not sure at the moment). Use a real text editor (

Text formatting in perl (do I always have to open the txtfile in landscape view?)

2005-03-01 Thread Harold Castro
Hi, I wrote a perl script that will parse a log file and output it into a text file. I made its filename to end in .swx so that it will by default open in openoffice.org. My problem is that, when you open the file, each line cannot accomodate the default margin settings of openoffice.org such tha