Tom,
How it shows up is a function of the program displaying it to you
(either your terminal window, your editor, or the 'more' command
or.. whatever.) It does sound like you have carriage returns
buried in there.
You might want to use the 'od' or 'hexdump' command to look at the actual
bytes and see what it is.
You can avoid it by ensuring the transfer is ASCII (i.e. text), and not
BINARY. One most FTP clients, you specify that you want
an ASCII transfer using the:
type ascii
command.
- Dave Rivers -
>
> I've downloaded the current mksles9root.sh from the linuxvm.org
> website.
>
> When I ftp it from XP to Linux (using vsFTPd 1.2.1 on the Linux side),
> the file arrives but with a trailing character. Makes me think that it
> is a trailing crlf. But it shows up in Linux as an upper case M with an
> underline under it.
>
> I've tried various forms of parms, such as ascii and binary, and the
> file still arrives in Linux with this garbage character.
>
> I think the last time I did this, I didn't have enough time to look at
> it, so I manually deleted that character from the end of each line.
>
> How do I avoid this in the first place?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom Duerbusch
> THD Consulting
>
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