Hi to all, and thank you for the solutions you adviced me about the dos2unix problem (when I saw with the cat command that nvi doesn't change the content files I decided to substitute all the line endings with \n and stop there). Now I have another problem: the 5.6 version perl on jaguar doesn't accept the escape character \s, does it? When I use it in a regexp (s/\s+/\s/g;)(I want it works to singularize all the multi-whitespaces), the Terminal tells me: Unrecognized escape \s passed through at cleaner line 27.
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