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**goheadtry** · 07-12-2007, 08:31 PM

Hi I have a question I think it should go here :

When my Linux server generates a file I look at the source code after I get it back on my xp machine through the FTP when I look at it I see garbage square zeros and it loses it's formating what should I do about this also when I open them with Dreamweaver 8 the look the way they are supposed to but in notepad I see square zeros and the formating looks terrible.

Does any one know how to solve this?

**ForrestCroce** · 07-13-2007, 01:20 AM

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Originally Posted by goheadtry

Does any one know how to solve this?

It's been a while since I fired DW up. First have a look at what Wikipedia has to say:

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Software applications and operating systems usually represent a newline with one or two control characters:

Systems based on ASCII or a compatible character set use either LF (Line feed, 0x0A) or CR (Carriage Return, 0x0D) individually, or CR followed by LF (CR+LF, 0x0D0A); see below for the historical reason for the CR+LF convention. These characters are based on printer commands: The line feed indicated that one line should feed out of the printer, and a carriage return indicated that the printer carriage should return to the beginning of the current line.
- LF: Multics, Unix and Unix-like systems (GNU/Linux, AIX, Xenix, Mac OS X, etc.), BeOS, Amiga, RISC OS, and others
- CR+LF: DEC RT-11 and most other early non-Unix non-IBM OSes, CP/M, MP/M, MS-DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows
- CR: Commodore machines, Apple II family and Mac OS up to version 9

There should be a setting in DW to expect a unix format file. The Windows format pretty much became standard, and Dreamweaver sees your code as a file with one huge line that has funny characters here and there inside it.

If Dreamweaver won't do this, that would mean it's lousy software, but you could use something like Notepad++ to convert the text file for you, or write up a script to replace Linux line endings with Windows ones.

**goheadtry** · 07-13-2007, 01:28 PM

Dreamweaver is doing this correct it is notepad that is not showing this correctly

**Learning Newbie** · 07-13-2007, 02:18 PM

Try File, Open, Encoding.

**tripy** · 07-13-2007, 07:15 PM

Notepad can only use windows end line encoding.
You can open the file with wordpad, and this program will detect the unix new lines and display them ok.

If you want notepad to display those files correctly, then you need to convert the line feed characters.