From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 14:16:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FBD937B41B for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:16:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b234.otenet.gr [212.205.244.242]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fA8MGfB25820; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:16:42 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA8HvQn01026; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 19:57:26 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 19:57:26 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: David Loszewski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ^M on end of lines Message-ID: <20011108195726.C775@hades.hell.gr> References: <00a401c163fe$94084ee0$0164a8c0@daemon> <003a01c16402$d5101e00$3000b1d8@sickness> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003a01c16402$d5101e00$3000b1d8@sickness> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:59:46PM -0500, David Loszewski wrote: > > Maybe the question I should be asking instead is, is it normal to see a > crap load of '^M's in a file in FreeBSD? Yes, it is. There is no distinction of `binary' and `text' files in Unix. All files are just collections of data bytes, that happen to co-exist in a sequential stream called `a file'. Unix does not care what you put in your files. It's up to you to define their interpretation as `normal' or `abnormal' :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message