[ale] OS Windows text editor for Unix files

Preston Boyington PBoyington at polyengineering.com
Thu Sep 23 11:48:36 EDT 2004


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.

maybe try NoteTab Light?  don't know if it will do what you want, but worth a look.

http://www.notetab.com/ntl.php



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