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Files with Special Record Formats
exaEdit usually operates on conventional text files consisting of
records that are separated by a Linefeed character (x0A) or
by the two characters Carriage Return (x0D) and Linefeed.
(Such characters are customary but not needed for reading the file.
exaEdit writes them nonetheless.)
There are other ways of formatting records, especially in operating
systems aside from Unix or Windows. exaEdit is able to read one of
those: Records of a variable length, which is encoded in a 2-byte-field
at the beginning of the record. The length field itself is not included
in the length count.
When reading such files, exaEdit analyses the length field and
assigns the read data to records according to the length specifications.
A workfile thus created can only be saved as a conventional text file
(see above) at the moment.
The command
is another alternative to reading data by separating via x0A. For
further information see the description of that command.
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