plain text ASCII format file

This may be slightly off-topic, but I'm hoping maybe someone knows the answer:

I received a license for the Messiah animation suite as part of a one-time offer, and it says to paste the License text "into a text file... (this file must be a plain text ASCII format file, NOT Rich Text or doc)."

I have Microsoft Office 2008. It has a Plain Text (.txt) format, but googling there seems to be some uncertainty if in Mac it is plain text ASCII format. The TextEdit app I'm not sure of either I'm pretty sure isn't.

Anyone got a solution?

Thanks!

MacBook Pro 2.66 ghz, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Mar 19, 2011 4:26 PM

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Mar 19, 2011 5:49 PM in response to elmerlang

The problem is whether that version of .txt or the MS Office 2008 is actually ASCII format or unicode.


I don't think that is the issue, since ascii and unicode are identical for the usual 26 letters and 10 digits that are probably in the license text. The point is that it be .txt and not .doc or .rtf or .html, which has all kinds of other junk added to the real content. I would use TextEdit set to Plain text.

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