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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Thursday 23 Jun 2011 11:39 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> Windows Newlines Will Kill Your Linux Scripts
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| What???s going on is that you really do have a
>>| fatal error in your code, and it???s an error
>>| that you can???t see. In fact, it???s invisible.
>>| The error is that you have uploaded a file that
>>| you created on a Windows machine.
>> `----
>>
>> http://hackingthevalley.com/2011/06/21/windows-newlines-will-kill-your-linux-scripts/
>>
>> Cancer in your shell, cancer on the Web...
>
> Nah, just an unfortunate line-ending convention with DOS inheriting a way to
> move the teletype striker back and downward. Mac has yet another
> line-ending convention.
>
> Windows software (except for Notepad) will handle the UNIX convention (and
> the forward slash) just fine. You can have a subversion hook clean up the
> line endings on check-in.
>
> Vim will handle the files either way, suppressing the "Ctrl-M" characters.
>
> Except when someone edits just part of the file, in which case you'll see
> some of them.
>
> But even Visual Studio now knows the difference and will ask you which
> line-ending convention you'd like it to use when saving the file.
Why even keep this broken legacy? It only confuses people.
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~~ Best of wishes
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