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In the Windoze world, Notepad is a simple editor that saves text strictly in ASCII format. Clean, not embellishments or tags. Sometimes it needs to be that way.
What do I use to save ASCII text on a Mac? Somebody at the Apple store told me the answer is TextEdit, but when I went to save a file just now my choices were rich text (.rtf), HTML, Word format, or XML. No ASCII in the bunch.
So, is there a program on here that does what Notepad does? Is there one out there somewhere...??
--PS

MacBook 2.16-GHz, 2GB-RAM, Mac OS X (10.4.10), After 28 years of DOS and Windows... a Mac.

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  • A UNIX based OS, w/o a text editor that comes out of the box is just stupidity!) What I can do is kick off a process which busy loops waiting for the file to be updated, when it is updated, then I can run textutil to convert the file, then I need to forcably kill the editor process, so the user does not edit the file again after I.
  • In the Keyboard system preferences panel, check 'Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar'. Find the Keyboard menu bar icon (on the right side of the menu bar), click it, and select 'Show Character Viewer'. In the Characters window that appears, find the 'View' pop up menu and select 'Code Tables'. Select the Unicode coding tab.
  • Old School nerds may remember a trick that let you watch the entire first Stars Wars film is ASCII via the command prompt. As it turns out, you can still do this even in Windows 10 and on modern Macs.

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Posted on Jul 26, 2007 10:23 PM