Converting texts between formats is a bit of a pain to do on a file-by-file basis, but thankfully, MacIssues shows how to convert text files in bulk using a simple terminal command.

My grandchildren will be able to read a text file I create today, long after anybody can remember what the heck a .dotx file is. But that’s not plain text’s only advantage. Text files are ...

Text editors such as Notepad create ASCII files as their native file format. The Common Denominator ASCII text files become a common denominator between applications that do not import each other ...

There are several applications that enable you to replace text in PDF files. Adobe PDF files can be created and read on various computer media, such as mobile devices, PCs and Macs, as well as ...

CSV stands for Comma-Separated Values, and it's a pretty barebones, plain-text file format that stores tabular data. This means data that'd normally end up in tables or spreadsheets, but in a CSV ...

How to live your life in text files. Plus, in this week’s Installer: ... and more in a format I’m confident I’ll be able to at least open and look at on my neural face-puter in 2096.

Q. I want to move my e-mail addresses from Hotmail.com to my cell phone, but after looking everywhere and trying everything I can’t find a way to do this. A. Various e-mail services differ in… ...

Linux text files, by comparison, end with just linefeeds. Here’s a sample of od output with the lines containing the CRLF characters in both octal and character form highlighted.

If you don't want to use BitLocker in Windows 7 or TrueCrypt, here's how you can use Notepad++ to encrypt your text files. Install Notepad++ and NppCrypt plug-in. Step 1: ...

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace.