On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 17:33, Dave Sherman wrote: > On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 16:49, Doug wrote: > > just from a windows partition to a linux one, ftp however yields the same > > result. I think it's an encoding issue of the file itself??? > > Assuming two things: > 1. You can open the same files in Notepad or other plain-text editor on > Windows just fine. > 2. The files really are plain ASCII text. > > Then it might be that during the copy process, the extra carriage-return > characters are not being stripped out of the files. Normally, ftp will > do this as long as it is in ASCII transfer mode. Also, it is possible to > tell mount (in your /etc/fstab file, I don't remember the option > off-hand) to convert Windows CR-LF combinations to just plain line feeds > for Linux. But if your fstab is not set to do this, and/or ftp is > transferring files using binary mode, then the Linux text editors may be > seeing the files as binary. I forgot one other thing. You might try to open the files in vi. If you see a bunch of lines ending with ^M, those are the extra carriage-return characters I mentioned. If not, then that's not the problem. Dave -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010919/44660c49/attachment.pgp