"^M"??? You sure it is that? Anyway, it is most likely to do with carriage
returns. Windows uses CR and LF to indicate a new line, while Linux and
Macs only use LF. Hopefully this will help. Don't know what you can do
about it though.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John W Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mysql" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 15:04
Subject: special characters messing me up
> 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
>
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