When ftp'ing the file use the ASCII mode instead of the BINARY mode. All
CR/LF conversions will take place automagically. Alternatively some linux
distributions have a utility to strip CR's from ASCII files and there is
always old reliable vi .
I hope this helps...
Pat...
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Irmund Thum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Mysql" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: special characters messing me up
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "John W Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: "Mysql" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 15:04
> >> Subject: special characters messing me up
> >>
> >> > I can't figure out why my windows machine leaves "^M" character at
the end
> >> > of each line of code. This causes the file to be messed up when I
put it
> >> on
> >> > the Linux server.
> >> >
> >> > It makes my perl interpreter look for a file named ^M after the very
first
> >> > line.
> >> >
> >> > #!/usr/sbin/perl
> >> >
> >> > also... what else I can't figure out is why this special character
is
> >> > sometimes hidden and sometimes visible in my Emacs program in
Linux...
> >> this
> >> > is the program I used in which I found the problem.
> >> >
> >> > anybody know?
> >> >
> >> > John Ford
> >
> >this is a very old well-known Windows issue;
> >you should use a text editor what can save your files in UNIX format:
> >I guess every professinal editor has this option, see Textpad or
> >Dreamweaver...
> >
> >--
> >http://it97.dyn.dhs.org/
> > Irmund Thum
> >+49 179 6998564
> >+49 6374 992541
> >Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s"
> >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s"
> >Content-Description: Kryptographische Unterschrift mit S/MIME
> >
> >Attachment converted: Ionia:smime.p7s (????/----) (00013E6A)
>
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