[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/30/20 7:17 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 12/30/2020 3:00 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> Don't know.  I thought you implied a bug.
> 

No, the discussion was about files with extraneous characters
like ^M in a text file moved to a Unix system usually by using
FTP in BINARY mode rather than ASCII.

I would love to know where the original file that started this
discussion came from and how it ended up on a VMS Systems.

bill