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Notepad - specifying line-break type?

ElJeffeElJeffe Registered User, ClubPA regular
edited March 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
I need to be able to prepare a text document in which the line-breaks are in the Unix format. I've previously been doing this on a Mac, using BBEdit. From there, if you Save As... and go to Options, it allows you to specify the line-break format as Mac, DOS, or Unix. I'd like to be able to generate these text files on PCs as well, but I can't find any similar option using Notepad.

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  • DaenrisDaenris Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I don't believe it can be done in Notepad.

    You can find another lightweight text editor that has this option. I use Textpad personally, but there are many options out there.

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  • subediisubedii Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Daenris wrote: »
    I don't believe it can be done in Notepad.

    You can find another lightweight text editor that has this option. I use Textpad personally, but there are many options out there.

    Second Textpad. Simple and convenient, does what you want it to do.

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  • ElJeffeElJeffe Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2008
    I wound up going with EditPad Lite, which makes it really easy to change the line-break type. (I have to write instructions for how to perform this task that tech-tards can follow.) Thanks for the suggestions.

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  • cyphrcyphr Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    For future reference, there are a bunch of tools that do the same thing as the *nix dos2unix command, which converts those line breaks for you. Here's an online version I just found.

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