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Stop UltraEdit "File is probably not DOS format" Error Message
If you use UltraEdit as your text editor and edit a lot of Linux/Unix files, you’ve no doubt encountered the “File is probably not DOS format” message every single time you open a file. So irritating…
There’s an easy fix to get around this frustrating error message:
Just go to Advanced \ Configuration from the dropdown menu.
In the Configuration dialog, choose File Handling and then DOS/UNIX/MAC Handling in the left-hand tree menu.
Under UNIX/MAC file detection/conversion, just choose Disable to make the error message go away. UltraEdit will no longer prompt you to convert the files, but don’t worry, it will keep them in their original format.
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- Published 05/30/07
Hi,
Thanks for the great Tip. I was really irritated with the error message, till I read your article!!
Thanks!!
Gr8 to see this. Now got rid of this annoying mesg… :-)
Thanks a LOT! This was extremely annoying. :)
Thank You so much! That message constantly popping up was very irritating. I can’t see why the developer doesn’t disable that by the default. Nobody uses it.
Ah, what e relief :) Thanks a lot! Great Tip.
Thanks for the tip ^_^
Thanks for this tip. This was really starting to annoy me.
tx for the tip !!! Little things make life more beautiful !!!
YEAH: i think i’ll earn 5 seconds for every click on that message. And i could calculate in …about 20 times per day…this is almost 1 hour per month! and in 40 years of work it is almost 20 days of life i saved. Thanksssssssssssss:
THANKS!
I love you like a brother. But…different.
Woot, great fix, I regret not looking for it earlier!
ty!
yay, i have to change this every time i reinstall UE.
Thanks! That was annoying.