Notepad for sure, incidentaly, i use pico which is extreml user friendly

Try using one of these free text editors. They have much more functionality.

Textpad
TextPad - the text editor for Windows

Programmers File Editor (PFE)
Programmer's File Editor Home Page

The newline characters are different between Unix and Windows. So if you write a script in Windows, it may not work in Unix.

dos2unix is one utility that you can use to clean up your windows text files for use in Unix.

No panacea that dos2unix (or 'tleast maybe the one I use isn't robust enough).

I've had occasions happen where it left garbage characters (carat-qmark pairings particularly) in files I thought were, at minimum, ASCII and the line-endings just needed tweaking. I find the better approach to be to use a CLI editor or the GUI one I mentioned in my previous post, Crimson Editor.

BZT

Thanks for all the replies. I ended up learning to edit w/ VI.

i'd say use notepad ...

however ...

regardless of what text editor one uses in windows, one should always get proficient in vi at a minimum --- ed would be even better --- since that would be the only text editor one can get if one runs into server problems and needs to modify files to get things working again ...