Any wordpad/notepad wiwth black background?

[Feba]

Re: Any wordpad/notepad wiwth black background?

I tried emacs for awhile, but then I realized I was perfectly satisfied with Linux.

Now I just use nano or whatever other pack-in thing they've got.

[Vevau]

Re: Any wordpad/notepad wiwth black background?

I use an IBM mainframe you insensitive clod.

Then you deserve all you get, and can parse whatever you fancy.

FYI - File format and code pages are not the same thing.

That was the point, text files are unstructured, although if you wanted to be really picky you need to know what code page a file is written in to interpret it correctly.

Conveniently for characters below 0xF0 ASCII is the lowest common denominator - at least in the Western world.

[Mhurron]

Re: Any wordpad/notepad wiwth black background?

text files are unstructured

Open a RTF file in a hex editor or Notepad and try and tell me that again. Or write a script in Notepad and wonder why it won't run on a UNIX all the while telling yourself, ' but text files are unstructured.'

[Vevau]

Re: Any wordpad/notepad wiwth black background?

Text is unstructured, when reading it requires nothing but a pointer to the stream of data and watching for EOF you can't impute a structure enough to call a format into it. If you are in any doubt pick up a decent into to C and see how quickly you get to reading text files.

The CR/LF debate is a non-issue, make sure you parse it right or convert. If you have cross-platform issues the issues are with the user rather than the systems.

RTF is a word processor document format:

The Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification is a method of encoding formatted text and graphics for easy transfer between applications. Currently, users depend on special translation software to move word-processing documents between different MS-DOS®, Microsoft® Windows®, OS/2, Macintosh®, and Power Macintosh® applications.
The RTF Specification provides a format for text and graphics interchange that can be used with different output devices, operating environments, and operating systems. RTF uses the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), PC-8, Macintosh, or IBM PC character set to control the representation and formatting of a document, both on the screen and in print. With the RTF Specification, documents created under different operating systems and with different software applications can be transferred between those operating systems and applications. RTF files created in Word 6.0 (and later) for the Macintosh and Power Macintosh have a file type of "RTF."

So not quite the format for use in notepad. Why on earth are you opening RTFs in a hex editor anyway?

Although if the OP was after something with a bit more style than a pure text editor OpenOffice.org deals with any WP format you can expect to encounter and can be changed to white on blue for easy reading.