I have mc 4.6 and it still shows ^M's when processing DOS files. I sent
Randy this simple perl script:
while(<>) {
s/\r//;
print;
}
Run it at the command line as, say, strip.pl:
perl strip.pl dos.txt > unix.txt
Myron Turner
Date sent: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 22:17:16 -0400
From: Alexander Varakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mc and mcedit problem - ^M
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Randy,
>
> You should upgrade to v 4.6.0.
> This problem is fixed there - mc shows ^M exactly as vi does, so you
> will never accidentally embed them into your text. I know this because
> I submitted fix for this problem ;-)
>
> Alex
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:19 AM
> Subject: mc and mcedit problem - ^M
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
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