On Monday 30 May 2005 08:57 am, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 02:03:07AM -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 29 May 2005 02:18, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 10:31:20PM -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 25 May 2005 21:27, Eben King wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 25 May 2005, Bob Stia wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > >
> > > Do what I said above and let us know if the file contains those ^M
> > > (carriage return) characters.
> > >
> > > Paul
> >
> > Paul,
> >
> > Ran the "less" command. There is nothing of which you speak. FYI I got
> > the script from the SuSE list. I am positive it was created in Linux.
> >
> > Have a thought. I copied the script from the email message and then
> > modified it using Kwrite. During that process I added line feeds etc.
> > and deleted lines and seemingly unimportant spaces. I would think that
> > a text editor like Kwrite would add the proper LF and nothing else.
> >
> > Question is: Is it critical for the amount of spaces/ tabs before or
> > after a line remain exactly as in the original ?? I notice that in most
> > scripts the first character in subsequent lines are spaced back from
> > the actual start of the line.
> >
> > Maybe I should just create the script by hand using the original as a
> > guide rather than taking the original and simply modifying it.
> >
>
> Spacing isn't particularly import in scripts, neither vertical nor
> horizontal.
>
> I'm very puzzled that you didn't find anything odd. You should have, and
> I'll still bet there's something there we aren't seeing.
>
> Your comments highlight one of the reasons programmers/coders don't use
> things like Kwrite for writing scripts and programs. Programs like that
> are often geared to writing word processing documents and the like, and
> consequently insert formatting codes that make scripts and programs
> impossible to compile and run. I think Eben also mentioned at one point
> that your email client may be messing with the content one way or
> another.
>
> I agree, you should recreate the script in something that won't mess
> with the content. There are tons of programs like this, designed
> strictly to output straight text. Most of them are console programs.
> There are vi, emacs, nano, pico, joe, vim, etc. etc. My biggest caution
> here would be to ensure you copy things very exactly. One misspelling,
> and you'll have a different problem than the one you have now. Spacing
> isn't important vertically, but horizontally, it can be. Inserting a
> space where one wasn't could wreck the script. Removing spaces where
> they are already could do the same thing. Adding spaces where they
> already exist (assuming they're not within quotes) would be okay.
>
> Let us know what happens.
>
> Paul
Kwrite would not be the problem here. Kwrite is a text editor _with_ syntax
highlighting etc. More of a programmer's editor then anything else. It does
not do rich text or any other type of formatting. Actually coding is what
kwrite/kate do the best. I would not suspect kwrite here.
I copied the script from the original post and it runs without errors on my
system.
-- Rob
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