On 22/01/02 02:01 +0530, Philip S Tellis wrote:
> Sometime on Jan 21, Ankit Jain assembled some asciibets to say:
> 
> > i d/led a script called xyz.txt on my windoze laptop n transferred
> > it 2 my rhl 7.1 (kernel 2.4.12) box via a floppy. Renamed it and set
> > the proper permissions(execute perm).
> > Now doing a
> > ./xyz.sh
> > gives
> > bash:xyz.sh command not found
> 
> Did you convert the script to unix format?  messdos has this stupid
> notion that an end of line must be signalled with two characters - \r\n.
> Why the \r, nobody knows - hey since when have electronic consoles had
> carriages to return?
The \r was so that all dot matrix printers would work correctly.

Devdas Bhagat

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