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- the Eclipse IDE has a CVS (Change Version System? - change management software) client built in, useful for looking a the latest source for a project.
CVS = Concurrent Versions System. It's pretty much the de-facto standard for source code control in open source projects today.
More info can be found here: http://www.cvshome.org/
- the Java source for these projects is stored with a single linefeed as a record delimiter (a Unix standard I believe)
Correct, that's the Unix standard for text files.
which Windows Notepad does not recognize, since it expects a 2-character record delimiter consisting of a carriage return and a linefeed. I used NoteTab Light; other suggestions were the Eclipse IDE, TextPad, cygwin (a bash shell for Windows) which lets you use vi, gvim.sf.net (graphical vi), on OS X you can use Fink and Fink Commander.
The Wordpad utility that comes with Windows will work. As will the MS-DOS 'edit' command, that also comes with Windows. In fact, pretty much anything aside from Notepad...
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