Re: [SLUG] looking at vi file in wordpad

[scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

slug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 26/07/2004 12:58:40 PM:

> 
> Dear slugers,
> I have created a file using vi. 
> When I look at the same file on a windows box with notepad it is 
> loaded as one line and where I expect to have carriage returns i 
> have box looking characters. 
> Can someone tell me how I can replicate these box looking characters
> on a windows system using wordpad or notepad. 

I am not sure how you would create those boxes in notepad or wordpad 
but...

why not use vim?
http://www.vim.org, you can download a windows binary version, which is 
very nice with its syntax highlighting and it has all the commands of its 
*nix counterpart...

Cheers,

Scott