Re: mc and mcedit problem - ^M

[Myron Turner <turnermm shaw ca>]

The ^M represent CR/LF pairs.  These are normally a result of 
importing DOS files into UNIX.    A quick look at Google shows a 
variety of (free) conversion tools.    Or if you are using Window, get 
Progammer's File Editor (free and wonderful).

Myron Turner

Date sent:              Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:19:07 -0500
From:                   rwright msiinet com
Subject:                mc and mcedit problem - ^M
To:                     mc gnome org

> I am using Midnight Commander under SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for
> IBM zSeries.   I'm an old mainframer building Linux skills who likes
> your product because it makes a lot of things a lot easier and I like
> the editor because I don't have to use vi (thank God).  I have
> encountered a small problem with your editor that is driving me nuts.
>
> I am editing some shell scripts.  At some point when I edit them, I'm
> getting some sort of special character or something inserted at the
> end of each line by your editor.   You cannot see these at all when
> viewing the file in your editor but they're there, and if you use the
> vi editor to look at the file, they show up as a  ^M at the end of
> each line.  I can start with a file that does not have these, and at
> some point which I haven't nailed down yet, they get put there while
> using mcedit.   These are apparently causing the shell script not to
> run correctly.   What are these, and why are they being put there? 
> Can I stop this?  Is it a bug?  Thanks in advance for your reply.  
> Here is the information from mc --version...
>
> GNU Midnight Commander 4.5.55
> Edition: text mode
> Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, ftpfs, mcfs, undelfs
> With builtin Editor
> Using S-Lang library with terminfo database
> With subshell support as default
> With support for background operations
> With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
> Using default locale
>
> Randy Wright
> zSeries Integration Engineer
> MSI Systems Integrators
> 8000 Maryland Avenue, Suite 410
> St. Louis, Mo.  63105
> Office (314) 726-3635
> Pager (314) 491-5026
> Email  rwright msiinet com
>
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