R. G. Newbury wrote:
> I have apparently messed up a configuration file, as on startup of
> Mozilla 9.2.1 I get and error box reporting an error in a
> 'configuration file' at line 246 contain %s-> (where the last 2
> characters are a 'right-arrow').
Something like that happened to me when I edited my prefs.js file by
hand (OK, actually using the OS/2 System Editor, e.exe). Nearly as I
can tell, that editor keeps up the tradition of ending text files with
a control-Z. This dates back to the minimally-capable CP/M file system,
which only noticed the number of sectors used by a file, not its actual
length, so that ^Z was used as an EOF marker character for text files,
but Mozilla doesn't care about that, and its parser gripes about the
^Z character with that error message. The fix is to use an editor that
doesn't do that, and delete the trailing control-Z.
James Jones
