another g*d* windows 7 question
i maintain the website for our shapenote group. when i took on this task, the way that they showed me to update the site was to go to WinSCP, copy the file that i need to a local directory, open the copied file in notepad, make the changes, copy it back to the shapenote directory, and, voila. sometimes i would accidentally open it into html but no worries, i could still update it.
last night i downloaded WinSCP to my new laptop which has windows 7 rather than XP. when i open the file into notepad it is a big mishmosh--using word wrap gets the mishmosh onto more than three lines but it is impossible to work with in that state. i suppose that i could try to reformat it from scratch but i don't understand why a file that works fine in notepad on three other computers would need a complete redo on this computer. if i open it in html, rather than showing me the coding, it shows me the site.
does this give any of my geeky friends a thought about how i can update those files on a windows 7 computer? as long as i have three computers with XP, i have a workaround (and everything worked just fine on my work computer this morning, so it's not that the file was corrupted or something), but sooner or later i'll be out of XP-enabled computers.
last night i downloaded WinSCP to my new laptop which has windows 7 rather than XP. when i open the file into notepad it is a big mishmosh--using word wrap gets the mishmosh onto more than three lines but it is impossible to work with in that state. i suppose that i could try to reformat it from scratch but i don't understand why a file that works fine in notepad on three other computers would need a complete redo on this computer. if i open it in html, rather than showing me the coding, it shows me the site.
does this give any of my geeky friends a thought about how i can update those files on a windows 7 computer? as long as i have three computers with XP, i have a workaround (and everything worked just fine on my work computer this morning, so it's not that the file was corrupted or something), but sooner or later i'll be out of XP-enabled computers.