I am not an expert with BBEdit, but TextWrangler (BBEdit's little brother) doesn't change format unless the user specifically instructs it to do so. MacRoman and Unix line endings match what I have. The icon is irrelevant. Good luck, Norm --- Norman A. Cohen nacohen at mac.com "I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." Oscar Wilde On Dec 4, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Chris Walker wrote: > Just one more point. I think BBEdit saves the file in the format in > which it found it. In this case a straight "Save" of the file > opened as > above, would be MacRoman with Unix line endings. Is this correct? > > Does it matter if BBEdit puts an icon on the file? At present it > is blank. > > Regarding the file, I made sure everything was backed up in duplicate > before I started playing around!!