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Wordpad is usually my go to when opening a unix text file (without carriage returns) that Notepad renders into a unintelligible mess. Word renders it properly, but then typically requires a bunch of subsequent formatting adjustments (font size, etc.) for good readability.

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I would also open Linux txt files in Wordpad, where they looked normal, then when you saved them as an ordinary Windows txt file they would open properly in Notepad later.

In recent years Notepad has overcome its traditional limitation when opening Unix files directly, I just discovered this not too long ago:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-n...