I'm not sure what you mean. I'm new at logging into shell accounts through a 'telnet' session. I'm on a Window$ 2000 box, using 'telnet' to log into 'sdf.lonestar.org'. The first thing that appears at login is the following: NetBSD/alpha (sdf) (ttypu) Does that help? Ron
Errin Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:11:26 -0700 (PDT), Ron Smith wrote: > I'm working the exercises out of the "Learning Perl" book, but I'm doing so through > a shell account from a Window$ box into a UNIX environment. I'm experiencing an > oddity wherein I'm getting, what I think are, extra newlines or carriage returns in > my code as I type it in the shell through a telnet session. This phenomenon, of > course, throws off the results of the code. > > Has anyone experienced this? Is there a solution? I've tried several adjustments in > the code I'm writing by using an extra 'chomp' or' chop', but this method is > hit-and-miss. There may be some ENV variable or something else I can use to get some > consistency going. > > TIA > Ron > What UNIX environment? What terminal emulator? I know that Solaris includes a handy utility called dos2unix that will help pull out annoying extra characters from DOS created text files. Perhaps this utility is found in other UNIXy OSs as well. --Errin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish.