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Technical NotesEnd of line charactersIn plain text files (see Plain text files?), special characters are used to mark where the end of each line is. The special characters used differ from one Operating System to the next:
Note that simply converting end of line characters will NOT successfully convert a file from, say, Macintosh to Windows format unless the file is a plain text file. Plain text files?A plain text file is one that does not include any formatting, fonts, colors or images. It consists purely of one ASCII character after another. Word documents are NOT plain text files, because Word saves all kinds of special information with the file. A plain text file can be opened and edited in Notepad.
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