Desmond --

...and then Desmond Lee said...
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% A sample from the file looks like this:
% 
%   while ( $row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result) );^M          
% $db->sql_freeresult($result);^M^M               $total_threads = 
% count($threadrow);^M   }^M     else^M  {^M             
% message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, $lang['No_posts_topic']);^M        }^M}^M// 
% END THREADED MOD CODE^M^M^M# ^M#-

Did you get this from a Mac, by chance?  I see ctrl-M in there but no
line breaks except what I'll bet a Twinkie your mail program put in for
you.  For delightful historical reasons, ASCII end-of-line is

  \r on Mac
  \n on UNIX
  \r\n on DOS (== Win)

So it looks like you want something like

  perl -pi.bak -e 's/\r/\n/g' moby_threads_install.txt

to change returns to newlines (rather than just stripping out returns by
newlines -- because there aren't any newlines!


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% Thanks
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% Desmond


HTH & HAND

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