Sometimes the files contain windows characters which are not readble correctly in Linux.
Use a hex editor to see if there are such characters. Please post a small part of the vpl file here so we can see if it's correct. Joachim > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:19:05PM -0400, fred smith wrote: > To reply to my own mail.... > > > So, back to my problem.... I don't see it documented anywhere WHICH > > names are to be used for the books... I was assuming it was the full > > names, i.e., the first ones in the array. Am I wrong, should it be the > > abbreviated names, the second column in the array? > > Nope, according to mod2vpl on the two modules I have installed, the > LONG names are the right ones. Besides, I just tried the short ones and > get exactly the same (uninformative) errors. > > I see, in looking at the output of mod2vpl, that the two modules I have > contain a LOT of <91> and <92> characters, as well as a fair number of <CM> > thingies at the end of apparently random lines. According to 'man ascii', > a <91> is a '[' and a <92> is a backslash. I see no sensible reason why > these would be embedded in the text in these places, so again I would > appreciate some useful advice. > > Thanks again!
