Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 08:24:30 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>, Andreas Ntaflos <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net> Cc: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ^M on end of lines Message-ID: <01110308243001.07574@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20011102223719.A565@sympatico.ca> References: <00a401c163fe$94084ee0$0164a8c0@daemon> <20011103023841.B1564@Deadcell.ANT> <20011102223719.A565@sympatico.ca>
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On Friday 02 November 2001 22:37, David Banning wrote:
> 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.
The ^Ms are invisible in, say, an xterm, so if you care comparting vi'ing the
file to just cat'ing it, it could be a matter of whether you *see* them
rather than whether they are *there*.
>
> 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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