RE: POI/HSSF default cell formatting

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> - the Eclipse IDE has a CVS (Change Version System? - change management
> software) client built in, useful for looking a the latest source for a
> project.

CVS = Concurrent Versions System.  It's pretty much the de-facto standard 
for source code control in open source projects today.

More info can be found here:
http://www.cvshome.org/

> - the Java source for these projects is stored with a single linefeed as a
> record delimiter (a Unix standard I believe)

Correct, that's the Unix standard for text files.

> which Windows Notepad does not recognize, since it expects a 2-character 
> record delimiter consisting of a carriage return and a linefeed.  I used 
> NoteTab Light; other suggestions were the Eclipse IDE, TextPad, cygwin 
> (a bash shell for Windows) which lets you use vi, gvim.sf.net (graphical 
> vi), on OS X you can use Fink and Fink Commander.

The Wordpad utility that comes with Windows will work.  As will the MS-DOS 
'edit' command, that also comes with Windows.  In fact, pretty much 
anything aside from Notepad...