Text Files

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Tue Jan 4 05:44:22 UTC 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry R. Grier" <terry at tigerstaffing.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 10:25 AM
Subject: Text Files


> 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

I've had really good luck saving my *nix text files with a .wri extension. 
When I open them under XP they open with WordPad which seems to display them 
correctly.

Thomas 




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