Re: re Little black boxes

The way I've fixed these in the past, using TextPad is to copy the space
containing the box and do a 'search and replace' .  I paste the copied text
into the field to "search for".  It appears as what looks like a tabbed
space.  I replace it with "nothing", thereby eliminating it from the file.
This has always worked for me in the past.

HTH,
Keith D Sellars
WebGraffix
www.webgraffix.com

"Making database sites seem easy"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Smith" <jay(at)JaySmith.com>
To: "B. Fennessy" <berfen(at)eircom.net>
Cc: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: re Little black boxes


> Ber,
>
> I vote with the Captain.
>
> However, if you are running any unix/linux boxes or have a friend that
> it, you might be able to run one of the programs on the file such as
> "unix2dox" or "unixtodos" or something like that.  I can't remember
> the details and I can find the man page, but these convert line feed
> and/or carriage return one way and the other.  (I use dostounix or
> dos2unix all the time myself.)
>
> Sorry I can't help fix it; you probably need to go the other direction
> from what I usually do.  And like I said, I can't find the man page.
>
> Jay
>
>
> "Captain F.M. O'Lary" wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ber,
> >
> > my first guess is that the file was uploaded as binary ( as opposed to
> > ASCII) and either the line feed (<lf>) or carriage return (<cr>)
character
> > was corrupted (or confused?) in the process.
> >
> > To *my* knowledge there is no fast/easy way to get rid of those
characters.
> > On the plus side, uploading an ASCII file as binary won't usually "hurt"
> > the file, it should render just fine in a web browser.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Fuzzy.
> >
> > At 06:36 PM 3/1/2002 , B. Fennessy wrote:
> > >Hi Everyone
> > >Greetings from Ireland!
> > >I was wondering if anyone could clear this up for me.
> > >I had a site up on the web. It was created by hand using html and
notepad as
> > >the editor.
> > >I wanted to make a few changes to the site and downloaded it this
morning.
> > >Now, however when I want to view the source code to tweak it a little -
I
> > >see all these little black boxes. They seem to be marking the blank
spaces
> > >in the text. Is there any  quick way of removing them so I can work
with the
> > >text? Or can it be avoided in the first place ?. Interestingly it has
not
> > >occured on all the pages of the site.
> > >Thank you in advance. I have learnt so much from this group.
> > >Ber Fen
> > >
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________
> > Captain F.M. O'Lary
> > ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net
> > <Building Alligator Proof Kayak>
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