Rolf Hopkins schrieb:
>
> "^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
this is a very old well-known Windows issue;
you should use a text editor what can save your files in UNIX format:
I guess every professinal editor has this option, see Textpad or
Dreamweaver...
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