Synopsis: file, created in Windows, won't execuate as shell script on Linux box.
Here is an 'od' dump of the first line of the file: > 0000000 # ! sp / b i n / s h cr nl The trick here is to get rid of the newlines. The easiest way I know of is to use the 'fromdos' program, located in the 'sysutils' package. Just run $ fromdos file and the newlines go away. For fun, you can run 'todos' on a working shell script -- it will stop working. Run 'fromdos' on it -- it will start working again. Carl
