From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 16 9:13: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cheddar.netmonger.net (cheddar.netmonger.net [209.54.21.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D03A437B42C; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:12:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@cheddar.netmonger.net) Received: (from chris@localhost) by cheddar.netmonger.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10557; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:12:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010416121227.A10002@netmonger.net> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:12:27 -0400 From: Christopher Masto To: michael@tenzo.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer madness... Mail-Followup-To: michael@tenzo.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000001c0c573$9bc40680$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <01041516133803.00452@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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