[ILUG] Notepad

[John Madden]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 James.Chambers at irishlife.ie didst pronounce:

>if I create a text file in notepad on windows, is it possible to make it
>executable on linux, I tried chmod +x and changing the owner of the file. No
>matter what I did it wouldn't execute for me.
>
Do you mean that you wrote a perl script or something like that
in notepad in windows and want to execute it or do you just want
to read the text file?

Linux will read a plain text file, no matter what it was written
with. The different editors will open it easily (vim, pico,
emacs) or you can scroll through it with cat filename | more.

However, notepad does put the 
 at the end of each line so if
it's a program (perl, c, etc.) they won't compile properly and
will give errors. So, open up the file with vim (vim filename),
type
:%s/
//g <enter>
to get rid of them. Then save the file and recompile it.

Note: 
 is <ctrl>v<ctrl>m

-- 
Chat ya later,

John.

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