Text Files

[Terry R. Grier]

Hello All.

I use gedit and text files for creating log/journal files for different 
projects I work on.
I do not save them with an ext. of txt I just save them. and it appears 
that it is in UTF-8.

I also travel with my log files on my thumb drive.  And when I open them 
on a winXP machine the files do not appear as txt files.  And when I 
open them in notepad I get a odd charater where each space would appear....

How/which format should I save my txt files in in order to move them 
around and be able to read them?


Also.. under xp in a txt file if the first line has '.LOG' in it .. each 
time it opens the date is entered.  This is nice for journalling on 
different projects.

Please advise.
T