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Plain text font for txt files

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by alon

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Have a client who has win 2000 on his computer. He accesses lots of standard text files thourgh his browser.

He is running IE 5.5 SP2 and the text for some of those text files comes up as blocks, but not all. we have tried changing the plain textfont in notepad, we have tried it in IE font settings. IT has helped some but the problem still persists. This does not happen on any other machine we have tried. Windows 2000 has been reinstalled from scratch and it does it. We have extracted all the fonts fresh off the windows cd as well.

I have a feeling it has something to do with a setting or a driver. does anyone have anything that can help me on this? Its driving me nuts.

Alon

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by peace monger

If this is a problem on an Internet system, I'll bet that some of the text files were edited and saved with WordPad in a different format than MS-DOS text files. Try editing and saving in Notepad and see if there's any difference.

by alon

The files are on the internet and generated by a database. This only happens with files that have a lot of text int he last line. This does not happen on other systems, just this one particular system. I suspect it to be an issue with A font, but I replaced all the fonts from the windows CD.

I also tried chaning the font in IE and in notepad, both of which did not help.

Wordpad is not used at all as this is a standard text file generated by a form and database, and it only happens on certain long entries.

by peace monger

Depending upon the database, this last long field could be represented in a different data type... Memo fields in Xbase and Paradox might not display correctly. It could be a character set issue, i.e. NLS... Can you tell me what db is serving this information up?

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