On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:34 am, many eyes viewed Chuck Mattsen's words:- > On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 02:19, Charlie wrote: > > > Thanks ... I'll send you a copy of it off list (however, I suspect it's > > > a PEBKAC thing, as I tried to compile a .dat via strfile with just a > > > few taglines, and ended up with the same thing ... one large > > > concatenated tagline). > > > > I haven't been following this thread but are you pointing your mail > > program to the file or the .dat file? > > The problem was in my tagline file, either in the way I saved it, or > something with EOLs (or lack thereof, I'm not sure), causing the strfile > process to just concatenate them into one big ol' mess. In any case, > with Todd's help I got the file and associated .dat in place and working > and, with further experimentation, found that I could create a small > test file and working .dat with no problem, so it was definitely > something in the file itself and the way I had created it when > transporting it over from my Windows installation. > > Probably my choice of editors, but I've not narrowed the cause down yet. > > :*)
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