I am useing Windows 98 SE, I have downloaded and installed Snort 1.8.6 for windows.

If I open snort.conf with notepad for windows I get a black square character where a newline -CF LF is suposed to be, so simply where someone would type the enter button, I get a black square. I can fix this easily by simply copying everything into this window, then copy it from this window and put it back in notepad, All the black squares will turn into new lines.

Not sure if anyone understands what I am saying but my question is why do I get these black squares instead of new lines. Perhaps it was writen on a linux machine?