in reply to Wanting Validation for Smacking my Sysadmin (500 error problem)

Check the line endings - are they UNIX or DOS ones?

--dda

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Re: Wanting Validation for Smacking my Sysadmin (500 error problem)
by Petras (Friar) on Jan 23, 2003 at 12:23 UTC
    Cool, I'm about to learn something....

    What are the differences between UNIX and DOS line endings? Every line ends with a semicolon, of course. I used ASCII when I transfered the file. What's the difference between the two? How do I make sure I'm using the right one?

    Thanks.
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      Every line in DOS text file ends with "0D0A" sequence, while UNIX file contains only "0A" at the end of each line. You can check it with 'od' command:

      od -t x filename.pl

      --dda

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        Should od be bundled with Perl? It's not available from my command prompt in Dos and when I PuTTY into the server.

        Google came back with some nice french poetry and a few metal fabricators :~)
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