On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:57:13PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> Mark Fowler wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > Strange. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Unix might have a problem if you take the -w out using a windows based
> > editor which will insert some nasty line terminator at the end of the
> > lines and screw up the file. That's what I normally find the
> > problem is when 'nix can't find the file.
>
> That is, replacing \n by \r\n. As you can see in the error message:
>
> > > ": no such file or directory
>
> which is undoubtedly short for qq("/usr/local/bin/perl\r": no such file or
> directory) -- the carriage return causing the filename to be overwritten by
> the rest of the error message.
Got it -- something else to stick in the commit checks... grrr... I forgot
that some people use windows.
--james.
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