[Ham-Computers] INT .FNM File

[Mike D.]

Open the file in a text editor and use the Search and Replace command. Use
copy and paste to select the rectangle character.

Textpad http://www.textpad.com/ is an excellent text editor that allows you
to Search and Replace the entire document at the same time.

73 de Mike, N9BOR
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> Does anyone know what a ".FNM" file is?  It should have been a ".CSV" 
> supplied by the Texas state sales tax authority whose web 
> site described it as "comma delimited".  But when I 
> downloaded it, I discovered that although the data fields 
> were in fact separated by commas, the lines were separated by 
> what displays in Notepad as a single vertical hollow 
> rectangle (taller than it is wide).  
> If I place the cursor to the right of the rectangle and press 
> Enter, the next line wraps but the end of the previous line 
> now has three of the rectangles.  
> I can't find a hollow rectangle in the standard ASCII 
> character chart.  If there were only a few lines, I'd just 
> clean it up manually while damning all politicians.  But the 
> file contains a line for every city, town and minor village 
> in Texas along with its sales tax rate.  At a guess from the 
> file size, possibly 5000 lines.