Text files with little boxes in them?

[20GT]

I'm using windows XP. I imported many .txt files from my Phone All of the words are there, but everything is lumped together with no formatting, and there seem to be little rectangular boxes all over the place.

I looked it up something about line endings, but its vey confusing.
Is there a windows program that runs on XP, or a simple way to convert all the files located in one folder with the command line they are in
C:\Documents and Settings\Steve\txt
if so could you post the code.
the output will be
C:\Documents and Settings\Steve\wtxt

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Steve>cd txt
C:\Documents and Settings\Steve\txt>TYPE input_filename | MORE /P > output_filename
The system cannot find the file specified.
C:\Documents and Settings\Steve\txt>

 

[voyagerfan99]

but everything is lumped together with no formatting, and there seem to be little rectangular boxes all over the place.

That means Windows or the application you're running can't read the formatting or font of the file.

 

[Cromewell]

The code you have looks like it should work, other than having the wrong file name.... If you are trying to parse the file names out of the current directory, that is possible but it's probably a lot less hassle to use something like http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/dos2unix.html to do it. You'd want unix2dos

 

[20GT]

I have that but didn't know what to put into it. It's just a console

 

[Cromewell]

Did you try the manual? http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/dos2unix/dos2unix.htm

It's a command line utility, you don't just double click it

for /R %G in (*.txt) do unix2dos "%G"
will convert all txt files in the current directory.