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Replace Microsoft Notepad With Something Better

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Problems with Microsoft notepad.exe* forced insertion CR CR LF characters at wrap points.* arbitrarily adds .txt extension, sometimes appended to an existing extension (ie: autoexec.bat.txt)UNIX uses LF (line feed) while Macintosh previously used CR (carriage return) and Microsoft uses CRLF ((\r\n)).  Windows notepad.exe puts a CRLF behind every line break even if the text file previously had only LF or CR.  Also, notepad.exe will not properly render text files without the CRLF "The Microsoft Way" format.Ironically, the old Windows 3.1 operating system was actually equipped with a more functional version of notepad.exe, that was updated for Windows 95 with the current more restricted "The Microsoft Way" version.
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