[thelist] What do I open a .pl file with?

Simon Coggins ppxsjc1 at unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk
Thu Apr 26 05:55:14 CDT 2001


> I am looking into using some cgi scripts. When I download the .pl file it
> doesn't open automatically. What's the best program to open it? I can open
> it using notepad but it is so hard to read. The text is all together and has
> two big black marks everywhere, are these carriage returns?

You get the black rectangles in notepad because windows and unix systems
handle carriage returns in text files differently.

For a quick and simple fix, open it in MS Word and copy/paste into
notepad.

Simon






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