UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

try{ng to find an easy to use text editor for the novice user (vi is too complicated, and pico may be a second choice). the issue I'm having is when the user(in dtpad) copies from another platform (e.g. IBM - MVS, windows), special characters show up such as carriage returns, etc. I know this doesn't occur with vi, but it would be more of a headache to the user to use vi. pico is pretty easy to use, but sometimes has the same issue with pasting. anyone have any suggestions as far as a better text editor or a way to get around this issue?

If you are really serious about learning UNIX, I'd take the time to learn vi. That being said...

You could simply use dtpad to paste the file, save then use dos2unix to remove the characters.

Cheers,

Keith

thank you for your response. However, the problem doesn't stem from myself and vi (which I'm pretty familiar with), but with the users that I'm writing these tools for. Anyway, I found that dos2unix does strip out the carriage returns in the pasted file so it will work. Thanks again for all the help..