Re: Text files going double lined

2006-04-19 Thread Kyrre Nygard
At 15:33 18.04.2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stop wrinting code with notepad... If you search or perhaps within the handbook an elegant script file exists will fix your woes. Try searching in Gentoo forums and FreeBSD I can't remeber where I found it. The issue is unix uses carridge returns at

Re: Text files going double lined

2006-04-19 Thread Kyrre Nygard
At 15:22 18.04.2006, Jim Stapleton wrote: would this by chance be happening after doing a network file transfer, such as ftp, with said files? Yes, you are most right Mr. Stapleton! All the best, Kyrre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Text files going double lined

2006-04-19 Thread Kyrre Nygard
At 15:38 18.04.2006, Derek Ragona wrote: Usually this is a result of the wrong end-of-line characters being used, depending on what the output device expects. In UNIX, end-of-line is just a line-feed, in MS-DOS/Windows end-of-line is a carriage-return line-feed pair. You may need to change

Text files going double lined

2006-04-18 Thread Kyrre Nygard
Hello, Does anybody know why text files sometime go double lined? That is, there somehow getting one empty line in between every line. I work with a lot of people across many platforms and I find it very annoying when large pieces of code or language gets doubled up like that. Would anyone

Re: Text files going double lined

2006-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona
Usually this is a result of the wrong end-of-line characters being used, depending on what the output device expects. In UNIX, end-of-line is just a line-feed, in MS-DOS/Windows end-of-line is a carriage-return line-feed pair. You may need to change the end-of-line characters to suit your