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#.TXT file format

    24-Dec-92 10:03:31
Sb: #.TXT file format
Fm: John Howell 72360,234
To: Rich Bowers/OPA 71333,1114
I downloaded CDFAQ.TXT a while back, and just downloaded KODAK.TXT. Both have CR LF only between paragraphs. KODAK.TXT also has non-standard tabs. I have enough text processing programs to make these readable, but I would like to suggest keeping .TXT files common: 1. Don't use tabs. (or set to every 8 columns – dos default). I think this is important, because it's hard to figure columnar data when it's scattered all over the screen. 2. Lines marked with CRLF. This is less important to me. At least I can go into a word processor to split it up into lines. My usual text editor just truncates at 256 characters.