It's a pretty common problem when working in a mixed environment. Seems
most everyone had an available tool. If not its a good one to add to the
toolbox.
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Erwin Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> sorry for the inconvenience with the scripts.
>
> I have already encountered the same problems (^M).
>
> Therefore, on my man qmail web page, I included a section "Download
> problems" which gives some hints.
>
> This is an old http browser/server problem.
>
> One may use Dan's http@ client:
>
> ./http@ www.fehcom.de qmail/checkfile > /usr/local/bin/checkfile
>
> and delete the last line (^Z).
>
> cheers.
> eh.
>
> At 10:25 8.3.2001 -0500, Ed Henderson wrote:
> >Solaris has a handy utility called "dos2unix" that strips ^M characters
> out of text files. Perhaps your OS has a similar utility?
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> >Peter Peltonen
> >Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:50 AM
> >Cc: qmail list
> >Subject: Re: NAKEDWIFE.EXE Virus - Filter available
> >
> >
> >mick wrote:
> >
> >> When I opened the scripts they had the windows ^m character at the end of
> >> each line. I was getting the same error until I removed them.
> >
> >When I open the file in pico or vim, I don't see those characters.
> >
> >With what program do I find and remove the characters?
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >Peter
> >
> >
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