[ale] OS Windows text editor for Unix files

Nathan J. Underwood ale1 at cybertechcafe.net
Thu Sep 23 09:49:11 EDT 2004


Would Scintilla work for you?  http://www.scintilla.org/
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Nathan J. Underwood
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John Wells wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> We have some reports that come out of a legacy unix system.  They're
> pretty standard unix reports: space-separated, 132 columns, ^L-page fed,
> \n-line fed files.
> 
> I'm looking for a free (as in speech, hopefully) text editor that can
> properly read and print these files on the windows side.  JEdit is the
> only free one that's done a good job recognizing the line feeds and EOLs,
> but the printing is horrible.
> 
> Anyone know of one I should take a look at?  I've looked at a few others
> (notepad++, notepad2, jext), but none fit the bill.  It's a VERY simple
> task we're using it for, simply printing and viewing, so no super duper
> features needed.
> 
> Thanks guys!
> John
> 
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