The ^M represent CR/LF pairs. These are normally a result of importing DOS files into UNIX. A quick look at Google shows a variety of (free) conversion tools. Or if you are using Window, get Progammer's File Editor (free and wonderful).
Myron Turner Date sent: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:19:07 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mc and mcedit problem - ^M To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > I am using Midnight Commander under SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for > IBM zSeries. I'm an old mainframer building Linux skills who likes > your product because it makes a lot of things a lot easier and I like > the editor because I don't have to use vi (thank God). I have > encountered a small problem with your editor that is driving me nuts. > > I am editing some shell scripts. At some point when I edit them, I'm > getting some sort of special character or something inserted at the > end of each line by your editor. You cannot see these at all when > viewing the file in your editor but they're there, and if you use the > vi editor to look at the file, they show up as a ^M at the end of > each line. I can start with a file that does not have these, and at > some point which I haven't nailed down yet, they get put there while > using mcedit. These are apparently causing the shell script not to > run correctly. What are these, and why are they being put there? > Can I stop this? Is it a bug? Thanks in advance for your reply. > Here is the information from mc --version... > > GNU Midnight Commander 4.5.55 > Edition: text mode > Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, ftpfs, mcfs, undelfs > With builtin Editor > Using S-Lang library with terminfo database > With subshell support as default > With support for background operations > With mouse support on xterm and Linux console > Using default locale > > Randy Wright > zSeries Integration Engineer > MSI Systems Integrators > 8000 Maryland Avenue, Suite 410 > St. Louis, Mo. 63105 > Office (314) 726-3635 > Pager (314) 491-5026 > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Mc mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc Myron Turner | http://www.room535.org | --land safely in cyberspace-- _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
