Hi Carlos,

Man, I have gotten way too far from DOS! I bounced a reply back too
fast and meant that, but said it wrong. That's why my WP (Atlantis)
gives me a choice between saving as Text and DOS Text. Wordpad is
smarter than I am. >;->

Larry


At 07:53 AM 10/8/2007, you wrote:

>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

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