shebang strange thing...

[Mel Wilson]

In article <3EF7A121.7B4C3775 at alcyone.com>,
Erik Max Francis <max-resume at alcyone.com> wrote:
>Dan Bishop wrote:
>> But how many people use \r at the end of filenames?  Or are even aware
>> that they can?
>> Even if it isn't a bug, it's a feature that causes more harm than
>> good.

>It's simply an end-of-line issue.  The "bug" here is that DOS chose to
>use CR LF as the end-of-line terminator.  (Mac gets even fewer points,
>since it chose to do deliberately do smoething even more different.)
>This has nothing to do with Unix, it's an inherent difference between
>platforms.  The platforms are not the same; if you pretend like they are
>then you'll continually run into problems.

   From another angle, I've been using the program ws-ftp to
move files betweem M$ systems and *nix systems, and it fixes
all the line-end problems for me.  I only get bitten now if I
move files another way.

        Regards.        Mel.