From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 2 12:55:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls20.mediaone.net (chmls20.mediaone.net [24.147.1.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B7337B40A for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:55:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sickness (test4.peter.Metro2000.NET [216.177.0.48]) by chmls20.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fA2KuKx21303 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:56:21 -0500 (EST) From: "David Loszewski" To: Subject: RE: ^M on end of lines Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:54:31 -0500 Message-ID: <001e01c163e0$92ce9200$3000b1d8@sickness> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <20011102214348.B9504@raggedclown.net> Importance: Normal 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 This happens with a .tar.gz file that I just downloaded and was also happening with files that I ftp'd over to my FreeBSD system from my RedHat Linux system Dave -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Cliff Sarginson Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:44 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ^M on end of lines On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:36:12PM -0500, David Loszewski wrote: > Everytime I copy a file over or download a file from the internet, when > I open it up there is a '^M' on the end of every line of that file. Why > would this happening and how could I fix it? > > Dave > Mmm, sounds like they are Dos text format files, Dos puts carriage-return(^M> line-feed(^J) at the end of every line, whereas Unix only outs ^J. This could happen I guess if they are text files being downloaded as binary (image) format files. Just a guess.. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message