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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Notepad help request
Message-ID: <1421@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 12:50:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.1421
Posted: Fri Jun 26 12:50:58 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 11:10:33 EDT
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
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Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Keywords: using big plain text files with Notepad


I have a plain text file of about 23 Kbytes size I want to browse from
workbench.  I'd like to be able to use Notepad, because it lets me flip
pages, it has a pretty, crisp display format, it is smart enough to
count wrapped lines when deciding how much to display on a page, unlike
the version of "more" I have, and it dynamically reformats the lines
when I change the window size.  Kudos to Commodore staff for all of these
nice features.

When I use the workbench menu "info" entry to attach a .info file from
an existing Notepad file to the plain text file I want to display, and
then double click the icon, the plain text file comes up just fine, and
displays with properly wrapped lines and dynamic redisplay, just like I
want it to.

But, page flipping doesn't work at all, and when I scroll down about 36 lines,
the scrolling stops.  When I leaned on the scroll down gadget for a while,
the text reformatted into the alternate character set and was crunched into
two lines, one across the window drag bar, and the other about mid window.

A while after I quit trying to move the display, the monitor speaker burst
into a random memory trash version of music, the power light shortly
thereafter began to cycle, and soon Mr. Guru paid a call.

I guess I did something wrong.  ;-)

So, a few questions not covered by the Amiga manual.

1) Is that file unrealistically large to expect to use with Notepad V1.2?
   If so, is there another workbench utility that counts wrapped lines
   right, and allows forward and backward scrolling through a document?

2) Do Notepad files have embedded control characters missing from my file?

3) If so, are they documented somewhere so that I could add them in as
   quoted characters with emacs?  Could someone give me a brief gloss, if
   that's not unreasonable?

4) Alternately (and nicer) is there a utility floating around to allow
   plain text files to be converted to Notepad format?  If so, will it
   let me decide where to install the page breaks?  I think I can get
   one document page on either three or four Notepad pages, so I'd like
   to break at the document's existing logical page breaks, with extra
   breaks between to fit Notepad page size.

I want this enough to type it in again from scratch, if that's the only way,
but at my progress rate, that's a week wasted, so I'd really appreciate any
help from the net.

Thanks,

Kent.

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