I’m sure you have encountered a text file before where when you view it in notepad, there are no line breaks, only a square looking character. This is because different OS’s handle how the Enter key translates to plain text differently.
- Windows inserts a carriage return + line break
- *nix inserts just a line break
- Mac inserts just a carriage return
Notepad expects the Windows format. To get around this, you can use WordPad or another freeware editor (I prefer EditPad) to open these files instead.
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