On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
>
>> > that this is a bit different from the previous user (since I am using a
>> > variable), should I simply have wrapped the ${common_dir}/header/arts.html
>> > in single quotes?
>>
>> If you're using a Mac-based text editor, you're asking for trouble,
>> as the Mac uses a different text file format.
>
>Hey! That's not true--most good Mac text editors can save with UNIX
>linebreaks. Furthermore, actual PC text editors usually save with yet
>another style of linebreaks.
Correct. When I use my MacOS G4, I only use BBEdit as a text editor,
which allows me to save with UNIX linebreaks (and I have set it as a
default). Most of the time though, I use my G4 running Linux (it is *far*
more stable, mostly due to the fact that the dual processor machine is not
stable under the current MacOS), and the text editor I use is vi.
>But it really shouldn't matter. The code splits on all sorts of line
>breaks, so I can't see how this would change anything. Still, I think
>Gilles is right--there was probably something wrong with the config file
>before you added the newline.
I had tried a number of things on only one of the 80 odd conf files
before I guessed it was a line break problem. Once I applied it to all the
other conf files they all started working properly.
>If you take out the newline now, does it break? (This is always a
>troubleshooting trick.)
Ya'know, this is the crazy part... I tried to reproduce the problem after
Gilles' response, and now I can't!! I haven't changed the file in any way
other than remove the extra linebreak (again with vi), and it doesn't
break! This is very strange, I'm really at a loss here.
Cheers,
Chris
--
Christopher Murtagh
Webmaster / Web Communications Group
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
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