special characters messing me up

[John W Ford]

I can't figure out why my windows machine leaves "^M" character at the end
of each line of code. This causes the file to be messed up when I put it on
the Linux server.

It makes my perl interpreter look for a file named ^M after the very first
line.

#!/usr/sbin/perl

also... what else I can't figure out is why this special character is
sometimes hidden and sometimes visible in my Emacs program in Linux... this
is the program I used in which I found the problem.

anybody know?

John Ford