Notepad switches

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Published on 2010-04-16T20:43:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 20:54 UTC
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What command line switches exist for Notepad?

I found a few:

/A <filename> opens file as ansi
/W <filename> opens file as unicode
/P <filename> prints filename

Are there others?

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