Re: beginner here - with basic cgi trouble

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Xun_Dog wrote:

>    The last script I downloaded for use .... was
>    a formail.pl (std stuff from a Perl archive on the Web)
>
>    I had to configure it . i.e. @referrers etc. ...
>
>    It didn't work ...
>
>    the reason .. Attack of the ^M 's
>
>
>   open up these scripts with fox-editor if you have it and
>   see if you've introduced any errors ...

Quick 'n dirty way to get rid of those darn ^M characters:

perl -pi.bak -e 's/\cM//g' <filename>

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