Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: End-of-line in text files

Just a thought Jon
In Preferences>Remote Systems>Files you can set a file to be binary
instead of text and then nothing should mess with the line endings.
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WDSCI-L] End-of-line in text files
Date: Mon, Feb 24, 2020 2:25 PM
 
Sorry Jon, I must have missed that sentence. Beside that I have no idea
why the linefeed characters are changed by RDi.

 > Also the preference says "...  for new files ... " so it shouldn't
 > have any impact anyway should it?

Correct.

What editor does your client use? Lpex, Text, Html? If it is not the
Lpex editor I would enable "Show whitespace characters" on "Preferences
- General - Editors -Text Editors". Maybe that helps to figure out when
the line feed characters are changed (loading, editing or saving).

Thomas.

Am 24.02.2020 um 19:01 schrieb Jon Paris:
> Thanks Thomas but as I said in my post "... the only preference I can
find (General -> Workspace) that is related says to use the Windows
default for new files." So the user already has Windows set.
>
> Also the preference says "...  for new files ... " so it shouldn't
have any impact anyway should it?
>
>  
>
>> On Feb 24, 2020, at 12:56 PM, Tools/400 <thomas.raddatz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> Let the client check his workspace preferences in RDi on page
"Preferences - General - Workspace". Most likely the client selected
"Unix" for the "New text file line delimiter".
>>
>> Unix uses LF whereas Windows uses CRLF. Notepad does not understand
LF. Notepad++ understands both settings.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Thomas.
>>
>> Am 24.02.2020 um 18:09 schrieb Jon Paris:
>>> Client reported a situation to me today that I have not encountered
before.
>>> They have a number of HTML templates in the IFS that were
created/maintained by a combination of Notepad and Notepad++
>>> These files have a code page of 1252 (Windows basic).
>>> Client has just started using RDi and when they opened an HTML file
it worked fine. They edited the file and saved it back to the IFS.
>>> Later they needed to use Notepad to edit the file, but it now just
shows up as one  huge line. If they use Notepad++ it looks normal.
>>> Due to the nature of their work they are forced to use Notepad on
some customer systems and this creates a barrier to them using RDi.
>>> I know that Win 10 has recently fixed the issue in that it now
recognizes multiple line end combinations (as does Notepad++).
>>> What I  don't understand is why RDi  is apparently changing the line
end characters during edit - particularly since the only preference I
can find (General -> Workspace) that is related says to use the Windows
default for new files.
>>> Anyone seen this or have any idea why it happens and how to prevent
it?
>>> Jon Paris
>>
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