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To: Andreas Ntaflos <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: ^M on end of lines
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For some reason I get the ^M's, but only when I use script like so
when I do a compile in the ports;

'cd /usr/ports/whatever'
'script tempfile make install'

Then 'vi tempfile' shows a copy of the make progress with lots of ^M's.

Am I doing something wrong?

On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 02:38:41AM +0100, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> 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.

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