html spacing

ever see these things?

[ikbenhet1]

Does it matter how many character a line contains or even how many lines a html has or what size it should be?

newest html files from my compettitors show these things: <snip> and they write their entire html on just a single line.

[edit] note that the character is altered after saving this message
it is a square
[/edit]

is anybody familiar with this?

i think it must be a programm who alters the html, since it would take lot's of time to calculate each line length and whatever must be calculated.

does anybody know what programs exist to do this?

[Knowles]

kbenhet1, I have this problem even with my sites when viewing them in notepad after downloading the source code. I think it has to do with unix double spacing. I could be wrong about the actuall cause but I dont think your comp is intentionally trying to do it.

[Hemsell]

I think the issue you are seeing is character returns.
They are not the same on nix as in WinDoze.
they look like little suqares on wondoze boxes.

right click on a link to a file on there site.
save target as.
Open in Wordpad, not notepad or anything else (I am assuming you are on windoZe)
Do a save as to text-MS-Dos.
Then open in notepad.

It is probably a unix file.

there is a perl command you can batch process to change the line break in the file, nut I forgot it.

I have been doing that all weekend to try and rescue some Adoption Registry Data I found on the net.

Todd

[ikbenhet1]

if you download antoher sites's html, does it also show these squares or not?