Hi Larry,

The ASCII table is the same for alll programs. The problem is there are two
ways of telling when a line ends. One way is just with a CR (carriage
return) character and the second one is with a combination of CR/LF (CR +
Line Feed) characters. Notepad only works with the second option (also known
as Windows convention). Wordpad, on the other hand, is smart enough to
handle both kind of text files.

Hope this clarifies the problem a little.

Regards,

Juan Carlos Rosso
Leiderdorp, Netherlands

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laren Dart" <sandman@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Re: Vista


> Hi Lawrence and Roger,
>
> Works great. I got tired of having to right-click and use "open
> with" for all *.dat files, so I changed XP to open them in
> Wordpad. Don't now why Notepad does this, maybe the two programs use
> different ascii versions?
>
> Larry
>
> At 05:36 AM 10/8/2007, you wrote:
>
>>Hi Lawrence,
>>How are you looking at Guide.dat? If in Notepad, you can indeed get
>>this problem - I just have, so occasionally I'll open such a file in
>>Word - I just have! (I suspect it works the same in Wordpad as well).
>>Not sure what you mean by "I have edited this to show a ; after the
>>.dat".
>>Perhaps you could send me your Guide.dat file and I'll have a look at
>>it for you. You'll need to tell me where your mpcorb file is as well
>>though.
>>Cheers,
>>Roger
>
>
> Laren Dart
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