[all] editing info files

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"D. B. Gustavus" <gustd000@students.uni-mainz.de> schrieb ...

> Which program is suitable to edit those files in a
> Windows environment without corruption of the file formatting? I am
> asking this, because if you open those files in notepad, they look
> somewhat weird, if you open those files in wordpad, they look normal and
> after saving in wordpad they look normal in notepad, too. However i do
> not know if this causes actual damage to the file structure. Any ideas?

It's only that different operating systems use slightly different
ways to code the <new line> information in the file.
You don't damage the files by changing this coding.

Werner.

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D. B. Gustavus wrote:

> I have one question about editing the info files from which the data
> files are built. Which program is suitable to edit those files in a
> Windows environment without corruption of the file formatting? I am
> asking this, because if you open those files in notepad, they look
> somewhat weird, if you open those files in wordpad, they look normal and
> after saving in wordpad they look normal in notepad, too.

One thing you need to watch for - Wordpad is capable of saving MS Word,
RTF, and other "rich text" formats. You want to be certain you're saving
those files in plain text format, otherwise *band won't like 'em a bit.

Some of the "weird" look comes from the fact that some of the files -
the ones defining vaults, for instance - assume you're using a fixed
width font to edit them.

Between Wordpad & Notepad, Notepad is probably the better choice, It can
only save plain text, so there's zero chance of getting that wrong.

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