Copy and paste forum code

Question

I don't mean to sound stupid but I'll have a go at it anyway:
Can somebody tell me a good way to copy code from a forum post and paste it into something like TextPad? When I try I don't get any linebreaks and it is a pain to put them in manually...
I'm using IE 5.5 on WinNT if your familiar with that setup.

Answer 1

Before I wised up (a little) like EvilEdna and switched to linux I wrote this. Not very elegant but it works, wrote it a long time ago. yawmark is right about saving to wordpad to add newlines too.
  import java.io.*;
  public class MakeNewline {
     static String lineEnd =  System.getProperty("line.separator");
         public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
                // Count and print the number of command line arguments
     int numberofArgs;
     numberofArgs = args.length;
     System.out.println("Number of command line arguments =  " + numberofArgs);
     if (numberofArgs == 1){
                     // If only input file is specified on command line,                                                                // use the specified input file
                     // & 'outagain.txt' as an output file
                        File inputFile = new File(args[0]);
                     File outputFile = new File("outagain.txt");                                                               FileReader in = new FileReader(inputFile);                                                                FileWriter out = new FileWriter(outputFile);
                     // below calls a class method to step through input                                                                // file and add vertical spacing
                    MakeNewline.addspaces(in, out);
     else if (numberofArgs ==2){
                                                                 // If 2 filenames are command line arguments
                      // use them as input and output files
                        File inputFile = new File(args[0]);
                     File outputFile = new File(args[1]);     
                                                                 FileReader in = new FileReader(inputFile);                                                                FileWriter out = new FileWriter(outputFile);
                                                                // below calls a class method to step through input                                                                // file and add vertical spacing                                      
                       MakeNewline.addspaces(in, out);
     // If there is an improper number of command line args print some error messages
     else{ System.out.println("There must be at least 1 file name, but no more than 2 as command line args");
              System.out.println("For example:   java MakeNewline InputFileName.java OutputFileName.java");
              System.out.println("If you do not specify a 2nd file name the output will be placed in a file named 'outagain.txt'");
static public void addspaces (FileReader in, FileWriter out) throws IOException {
                      int c;
           int numNewLines = 0;
                      while ((c = in.read()) != -1){
                         if (c == 10) {
                                     numNewLines++;
                                       out.write(lineEnd);       
                              else{ out.write(c);}
                    System.out.println(" Number of new lines added, including blank lines: "+numNewLines);     
                       in.close();
                       out.close();
  }