Firefox Insnt saving txt files properly

Raiden1803 · August 8th, 2004

what the hell...

i dunno if this is a firefox thing or something with that one site. but when i tried to save this txt it came out like this

Noxious Ninja · August 8th, 2004

That would be notepad... the text file is in Unix format, which notepad doesn't understand. Open it in Wordpad or a better text editor like UltraEdit.

**Razor Blade** · August 8th, 2004

Just copy the text, then open notepad, paste it there and save the file.

**FLaRe85** · August 8th, 2004

Works fine if I save as in IE and open in Notepad.

**Kirby** · August 8th, 2004

hmph....not to me o_O

Noxious Ninja · August 9th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by FLaRe85

Works fine if I save as in IE and open in Notepad.

Very interesting observation... IE seems to convert all text files to Windows format when it saves them.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirby

hmph....not to me o_O

You're not using Notepad. :P

Raiden1803 · August 9th, 2004

how can you tell if a documents in Unix format? just save it and wait for notepad to screw it up?

**Kirby** · August 9th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Khan Artist

You're not using Notepad. :P

close enough in my opinion

btw...the origional notepad doesn't support Unix text, that's why I use Notepad2

VDDZ · August 9th, 2004

Turn word wrap on under format.

scottlc · August 9th, 2004

No, it is caused because under Unix, lines are terminated with a \n (LF) character. Under DOS and Windows NT, lines are terminated with a \r\n (CRLF) pair. Thus, Notepad in all of it's stupidity, does not recognise the Unix line termination. Curiously enough, Wordpad seems to recognise it though.

There is absolutly no reason why a web browser should even consider messing with the data inside of a file.

**ammoQ** · August 11th, 2004

Even more curiously, the good old "edit" command (a relict of DOS) perfectly handles unix text files. For some reason hard to understand, MS broke this compatibility in notepad.

**ammoQ** · August 11th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raiden1803

how can you tell if a documents in Unix format? just save it and wait for notepad to screw it up?

Probably the easiest way

Quark · August 11th, 2004

I use a text editor called Textpad, and when you save files you have the option of saving it as 'PC' - i.e Windows, or 'UNIX'.

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Raiden1803 ..... Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: in a van down by the river Posts: 2,535	Firefox Insnt saving txt files properly what the hell... i dunno if this is a firefox thing or something with that one site. but when i tried to save this txt it came out like this __________________ OS: WinXP (Sp2 Build) CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.39GHz GFX: ATi Radeon X850 PRO 256MB SOUND: SB Audigy 2 ZS Speakers : Creative Inspire T7700 CD/CD-RW: Lite-On DVDRW SOH1213S / Sony CRX 230ED RAM: 1gig DDR HD: 160gig Seagate

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Noxious Ninja Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: teh intarweb Posts: 1,718	That would be notepad... the text file is in Unix format, which notepad doesn't understand. Open it in Wordpad or a better text editor like UltraEdit. __________________ 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0 Last edited by The Khan Artist; August 8th, 2004 at 23:23.

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Raiden1803 ..... Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: in a van down by the river Posts: 2,535	how can you tell if a documents in Unix format? just save it and wait for notepad to screw it up? __________________ OS: WinXP (Sp2 Build) CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.39GHz GFX: ATi Radeon X850 PRO 256MB SOUND: SB Audigy 2 ZS Speakers : Creative Inspire T7700 CD/CD-RW: Lite-On DVDRW SOH1213S / Sony CRX 230ED RAM: 1gig DDR HD: 160gig Seagate

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scottlc Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: St Andrews, Scotland Posts: 1,575	No, it is caused because under Unix, lines are terminated with a \n (LF) character. Under DOS and Windows NT, lines are terminated with a \r\n (CRLF) pair. Thus, Notepad in all of it's stupidity, does not recognise the Unix line termination. Curiously enough, Wordpad seems to recognise it though. There is absolutly no reason why a web browser should even consider messing with the data inside of a file. __________________ OS: Arch Linux w/ Kernel 2.6.23.8 + GNOME 2.20.1 - CPU: Intel Pentium M 1.5GHz - Memory: 1280MB DDR PC2700 - Browser: Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10

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ammoQ Emu author Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Vienna/Austria/Europe Posts: 1,168	Even more curiously, the good old "edit" command (a relict of DOS) perfectly handles unix text files. For some reason hard to understand, MS broke this compatibility in notepad. __________________ If you think my English is bad, wait till you read my Polish.

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Quark Has an extra GOTO 10 Line Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 250	I use a text editor called Textpad, and when you save files you have the option of saving it as 'PC' - i.e Windows, or 'UNIX'.

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