[ILUG] Notepad All it needs is a simple solution - use dos2unix

[V.P.Singh Gill]

Hi,
    Solution to this problem is use 'dos2unix' program that ships with RHL. There is no need to go for looking for any kinda characters, etc.
Regards
Vijay Gill


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Madden" <maddenj at csn.ul.ie>
To: <James.Chambers at irishlife.ie>
Cc: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Notepad


> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 James.Chambers at irishlife.ie didst pronounce:
> 
> >if I create a text file in notepad on windows, is it possible to make it
> >executable on linux, I tried chmod +x and changing the owner of the file. No
> >matter what I did it wouldn't execute for me.
> >
> Do you mean that you wrote a perl script or something like that
> in notepad in windows and want to execute it or do you just want
> to read the text file?
> 
> Linux will read a plain text file, no matter what it was written
> with. The different editors will open it easily (vim, pico,
> emacs) or you can scroll through it with cat filename | more.
> 
> However, notepad does put the 
>  at the end of each line so if
> it's a program (perl, c, etc.) they won't compile properly and
> will give errors. So, open up the file with vim (vim filename),
> type
> :%s/
> //g <enter>
> to get rid of them. Then save the file and recompile it.
> 
> Note: 
>  is <ctrl>v<ctrl>m
> 
> -- 
> Chat ya later,
> 
> John.
> 
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