Gadzookers! (was Re: ^M 's in uploaded text files.)

Jonathan I. Kamens jik at athena.mit.edu
Fri Feb 2 15:52:31 AEST 1990


In article <1986 at mrsvr.UUCP>, kohli at gemed (Mr. Bad Judgment) writes:
> I believe the objective would be better accomplished if '\015'
> was used (rather than '\012'), eh?

  Yeah.  Sigh.

  I needed to test to make sure the command I was posting would work, so
I did "tr -d "\012"" on my .login file (the first name I could think of
:-), since I knew that it didn't contain any ^M characters (only ^J),
and missing ^J's would be really hard to miss.

  I forgot to change \012 back into \015 before posting the message. 
And Randal just took my cue :-).

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