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Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by recursive on Sunday January 07, 2024 @12:30PM (#38903129)
Why not turn on wrapping in notepad?
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Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by jan_k_ on Sunday January 07, 2024 @01:04PM (#38903471)
Notepad wouldn't recognize Unix line endings and would interpret the whole file as one line. Word wrapping doesn't fix that.
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Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by recursive on Sunday January 07, 2024 @01:44PM (#38903908)
Oh I see. Yes, I remember that.

FYI, notepad can cover this use case now, as it can handle more character encodings and line-endings.

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Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by rzzzt on Sunday January 07, 2024 @05:56PM (#38906098)
There was also some weirdness where you could not have the status bar and word wrapping enabled at the same time.
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