Windows text file viewer that works on Linux text files

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2014-07
  • broiyan

    Is there a Windows application like Notepad.exe that will view ASCII files that have the Linux-style newline sequence of a single ASCII LF character? This would be like a gedit for Windows.

    I need to run this in Windows 8.1 on VirtualBox inside of Linux.

    I am aware of todos and fromdos but it's not convenient to do conversions.

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  • Daniel B

    The ultimate built-in solution: WordPad. It's true! :)

  • Fazer87

    gedit for windows??... how about gedit for windows ;)

    I'm sat with a linux dev in my office right now who said that this should handle what you need ti to quite happily.

  • Jason

    Anything other than Notepad. (no joke)

    If you don't want to install anything, WordPad will work. My personal favorite is SciTE.


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    linux - How do I make 'man ascii' work on Fedora 11
  • Eric

    Upgrading from Fedora 9 with a full reinstall off the non-developers CD image, then installing various packages. man ascii doesn't work -- what do I need to install to get this to work?


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  • 8088

    It doesn't come bundled with the default man pages, to install it:

    yum install man-pages

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  • quack quixote

    My Debian system has this installed at /usr/share/man/man7/ascii.7.gz (in section 7 of the manual), and was installed with the package manpages. On Debian systems, tools like apt-file and apt-cache can search uninstalled packages for particular files.

    According to the Fedora Package Database (linked in tj111's answer), there is a man-pages package. Install that if you don't have it already. You might check for additional core documentation packages.

    edit: John T confirms: man-pages is the package you want.

  • John T

    The package ascii doesn't appear anywhere in the Fedora 11 Package Database, however asciidoc does. If that's what you're looking for, make sure you have asciidoc installed.