Notepad problems.

Hey /comp/ I've got a question for ya. I've actually been having it for a while-- but it's never really bothered me until now.

Well, basically, in some of my notepad files, I'll have boxes where it used to break into another line. Anyone know why/suggest a fix?

Here's an example of what I mean.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/852/wut9lf.jpg

>>1
It'll be because the lines are only being terminated by a "line feed" character, which Notepad doesn't recognise as a line break and instead displays it as a box. Having lines ending in LF is a Unix convention. DOS and Windows expect the lines to be terminated by a combination of "carriage return" and "line feed" characters, which is what Notepad recognises as a line break.

Quick fix: open the file up in the DOS editor (run the EDIT command) and save it. It opens LF text files properly but only saves as CRLF.

>>2
STFU