Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!amdahl!kim From: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Notepad help request Message-ID: <11409@amdahl.amdahl.com> Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 21:01:28 EDT Article-I.D.: amdahl.11409 Posted: Tue Aug 4 21:01:28 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Aug-87 01:39:23 EDT References: <1421@xanth.UUCP> <2137@cbmvax.UUCP> Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Lines: 46 Keywords: using big plain text files with Notepad In article <2137@cbmvax.UUCP>, andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes: > In article <1421@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > > > >2) Do Notepad files have embedded control characters missing from my file? > > Notepad uses a CONTROL-L (form feed ) to divide pages. You may be missing > those. > > >[ ... ] > > Aside from the formfeeds, it uses ANSI standard codes for its functions, > it the SGR series, like [1m for bold face. (The is there > so I can find the suckers on a reverse search more quickly). Fonts > are specified by [;;<...param n>"f the > are the name of the font reduced to the numeric values of > their ASCII codes, and the size of the font. So, for example, > topaz 8 would become > [116;111;112;97;122;8"F > The only appears once per group of commands, at the end. Ah ha ... so Notepad is the culprit! :-) :-) Not being a user of Notepad, I wasn't aware that it followed it's escape sequences with a null character. But I do know that every once-in-awhile, I happen across a file that gives Matt's DME editor fits, and that those files have embedded escape sequences, terminated with a null. These files sometimes show up in stuff downloaded from BBS's, etc. I talked to Matt about this, and it seems that DME handles control characters just fine ... except for one. You guessed it ... null's confuse the poor thing to no end! So, as the Robot would say, "WARNING, Will Robinson, WARNING!" If you use DME, do not edit Notepad files!!! /kim -- UUCP: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ihnp4,seismo,oliveb,cbosgd}!amdahl!kim DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 CIS: 76535,25