Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:12:27 -0400 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: michael@tenzo.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer madness... Message-ID: <20010416121227.A10002@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <01041516133803.00452@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net>; from Michael O'Henly on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 04:13:38PM -0700 References: <000001c0c573$9bc40680$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <01041516133803.00452@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net>
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On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 04:13:38PM -0700, Michael O'Henly wrote: > So after, say, eight hours of accumulated effort I started writing another > plea for assistance to the list and began by inserting /etc/printcap into > kmail. Lo and behold, at the end of the last line there were a bunch of > garbage characters that were not visible in xemacs! I opened the file in vi > (where the garbage chars were also not visible), deleted and reentered the > last line -- and now it works perfectly. > > I'd hate to say that the moral of this story is not to trust xemacs. If you > can't trust xemacs, what hope is there for humanity...? I would love to have a copy of that file. I use XEmacs all the time and have never seen that behavior - I'd like to know what to watch out for. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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