If you use wordpad, everything will work fine. It formats it correctly for linux. It also has no problem reading linux text files at all. Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of David Poehlman Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 11:45 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: User agent well, it's either that or word pad or I could use pico for windows. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 9:33 AM Subject: Re: User agent It looked scrambled because unixish systems only terminate lines with Ctrl-J, whereas DOS/Windows requires CtrlJ plus Ctrl-M. Macintosh, by the way, only uses Ctrl-M Since Notepad is so stupid (and you insist on continuing to use it), covert it first with: unix2dos [filename] When you're done: dos2unix [filename] But, why aren't you just editing from the command line with vim, or emacs, or nano, or something?