Subj : Re: Text.dat
To   : The Millionaire
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Apr 30 2021 17:59:14

  Re: Re: Text.dat
  By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Fri Apr 30 2021 05:27 pm

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 > >   Re: Re: Text.dat
 > >   By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Thu Apr 29 2021 08:15 pm
 >
 > > I can't think of a reason to do that. It is a text file, but the file
 > > extension should not matter.

 > When I edited my text.dat file before every time it would screw up unless I
 > just replaced colours then it worked fine. I sometimes changed the spacing,
 > made the line numbers closer, tried erasing line numbers, no dice. What is
 > the proper way of editing the file without screw ups?

Make backups. When you do screw-up, compare the previous working backup with your newly screwed-up one and either the problem will be obvious or paste the diff between those 2 versions here and we can help. Use utilities like "diff" or "fc" to compare the files.
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