forums.silverfrost.com

simon · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 301

I have created a formatted output file using FTN95, and can read the file perfectly in Plato, Excel, and WordPad, but it looks completely garbled in NotePad. If I create the same file using a different compiler the problem does not occur.

I am perfectly happy to make the output file available if somebody could let me know how to do so. Unfortunately, providing some complete sample code for the output to reproduce the problem would be difficult, but it works something like the following:

davidb · Joined: 17 Jul 2009 Posts: 560 Location: UK

Notepad needs a CR+LF at the end of each line, whereas Wordpad and the editor in Plato can get by with LF.

One thing I note in your code, is that the WRITE you are doing to turn ADVANCE back on isn't correct as there isn't any data to match the A format descriptor.

I would have used:

simon · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 301

Thanks David,
Usually if Notepad does not have the correct end-of-line character it just wraps everything into a single line. The file then becomes difficult to read, but not what I see now - Chinese and other special characters. It almost looks as if the file is binary, but there are no complaints from NotePad when the file is opened.

PaulLaidler · Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 7:10 am Post subject:

Plato can also read UNICODE/UTF8 files and maybe Notepad cannot do this.

This key in the end will be to look at the binary. You can do this from Plato provided that you use the Open on the File menu and not the toolbar button.
Then you get a check box to select in order to display the binary.

simon · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 301

Thanks for the suggestion, Paul. I see how to open the file in binary as you indicated. The first few lines look as follows:

PaulLaidler · Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 12:43 pm Post subject:

The first line of the binary looks fine so there must be something else going on. Are you sure that you are opening the same file in Notepad?

jalih · Joined: 30 Jul 2012 Posts: 196

PaulLaidler · Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 7:06 am Post subject:

Thanks for the suggestion.

simon · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 301

Thank you all for the assistance.

I have double-checked and am 100% certain that I am looking at the same file. But I did only copy a small portion of what is viewed in NotePad because everything is on a single line. Here is a bit more, if that helps:

PaulLaidler · Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 9:01 am Post subject:

See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/04/17/2158334.aspx

simon · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 301

Thanks Paul.

If I read the file into WordPad, it reads ok. If I then save it as:

Text Document - Notepad does NOT display the data properly
MS-DOS Format - Notepad does NOT display the data properly
Unicode Text Document - Notepad does display the data properly

I think I can justifiably treat this as a Notepad problem then.