[Info-vax] wrong file format

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 15:00:39 EST 2020


On 12/30/20 12:43 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 12/30/2020 9:22 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2020-12-29, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> And, just so people don't think, based on earlier comments, that
>>> Unix is somehow immune, I frequently have to remove "^M" characters
>>> from text files on Unix. Unix's only saving grace in this regard is
>>> that the solution is trivial.  :-)
>>>
>>
>> And that a dedicated command to fix it generally comes with modern
>> Unix variants...
> 
> Sounds like, instead of fixing a bug, a fix for the result of the bug is 
> provided.
> 
> Am I the only one who has a problem with this?
> 
> 

What, exactly is the bug?

bill




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