From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 2 17:38:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E10C37B408 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 17:38:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1985 invoked by uid 0); 3 Nov 2001 01:38:48 -0000 Received: from tk212017108240.univie.teleweb.at (HELO Deadcell.ANT) (212.17.108.240) by mail.gmx.net (mp009-rz3) with SMTP; 3 Nov 2001 01:38:48 -0000 Received: (from ant@localhost) by Deadcell.ANT (8.11.5/8.11.5) id fA31cfe01821; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 02:38:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ant) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 02:38:41 +0100 From: Andreas Ntaflos To: David Loszewski Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ^M on end of lines Message-ID: <20011103023841.B1564@Deadcell.ANT> Mail-Followup-To: David Loszewski , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <00a401c163fe$94084ee0$0164a8c0@daemon> <003a01c16402$d5101e00$3000b1d8@sickness> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003a01c16402$d5101e00$3000b1d8@sickness>; from stealth215@mediaone.net on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:59:46PM -0500 Platform: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Hostname: Bender.ANT 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? > > Dave No, this just happens if those files are either DOS formatted (wordpad, excel), or transferred via ftp in binary mode (ascii files should be transferred in ascii mode). I don't recall any other reason. -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message