On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> wrote: > > > Victor Subervi wrote: > >> <snip> >> >> The problem was not CGI. It turned out to be line-endings being mangled by >> Windoze and __invisible __ in my unix editor. Lovely. >> Thanks anyway, >> V >> >> >> > That's twice you've blamed Windows for the line-ending problem. Windows > didn't create those crlf endings, your text editor did. If your editor > can't control that, you could try a different one. Komodo for example can > do it either way, or it can preserve whatever is being used in the loaded > file. Similarly metapad, in spite of its huge simplicity, lets you decide, > and can convert an existing file in either direction. > > And I'm a great believer in visible control characters. I configure Komodo > to show me spaces in the lines, so I can see whether it's a tab or a space. > It can also be configured to show end-of-line characters, so I presume > that'd work here. See whether your Unix editor can show you this sort of > thing. > > Finally, many FTP programs can be told to automatically convert > line-endings when transferring text files. There's probably some risk that > it'll mangle a non-text file, but it's worth considering. >
Wonderful, wonderful. I'll take both of those pieces of advice. Thank you. V
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