There are two unrelated issues here.
1 How characters are encoded in the file - ANSI, DBCS and so on.
2 How newlines are encoded.
Newlines first. There is no consistent newline character (indicating
the end of a line) as there is for the character a. Instead, Windows
and MS-DOS uses two
Hello Alasdair,
Thank you so much for that wonderful explanation. I actually just
found a text editor/word processor called VDE.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,53873-page,1-c,wordprocessing/description.html
It's features and usage are incredible, and if it works with a
screen
May I be nosy, Eleni: why do you maintain a DOS machine? Are we
talking about a genuine boot-into-DOS-6 machine, or a Vista or XP
machine with a command prompt? Are you using a hardware synthesizer?
I update WebbIE every couple of months, time permitting. If you have a
particular site that isn't
No, it's a real MS-DOS 6 machine, with a KeyNote Gold Voicecard
synthesizer. I'll be switching over to a custom desktop with Enhanced
DR-DOS once it's built and, hopefully, will be able to put EDRD onto
an IBM Thinkpad 310 to use for practise until my desktop is ready and
for a back-up machine.
So today, I decided to see how Word Perfect 5.1 and Ed.exe would
read files saved as .txt in Notepad and .txt (MS-DOS format) in
Wordpad. The only difference that I noticed is that the lines started
and stopped at different points so that a sentence that began on one
line in one format might
Last night, I went to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_file#Formats
and still don't completely understand this.
Most Windows text files use a form of ANSI, OEM or Unicode encoding.
What Windows terminology calls ANSI encodings are usually
single-byte ISO-8859 encodings, except for in locales
