[solved] Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

[Andy Goss <aegoss@vicnet.net.au>]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

>> If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in
>> fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not
>> correctly read: the line ends are not recognised.  The remedy is to cut the
>> text
>> and paste it into an MS Word file, then cut it again and re-paste it into the
>> text file, which is not so good because this way I need rebooting every time
>> into the Windows partition.
>>
>> Can anybody suggest some solution to this problem?



Claudius Hubig <x2017_2007@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

>> nano, e. g., supports the MS-DOS-file format (or whatever it's
>> called) and thus you can save your text files with nano (C+O, M+D)
>> the way Windows users are able to read them properly.




Rodolfo:

> Thanks, this seems to work fine: I paste the text into nano buffer, then do
> C-o M-d and it's done. :)

The KDE text editor Kate lets you select line endings - Unix/Windows/Mac. It also has a good spellchecker and you can add a word count function. I do all my work (journalistic) with Kate to send to a Windows environment. Kate will run under GNOME but I found it slow to load, so now I use KDE.