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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:01:20 +0900
From: Bruce Harada <bruce@ask.ne.jp>
To: Ivo Timmermans <irt@cistron.nl>
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Subject: Re: binfmt_script and ^M
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:38:23 +0100
Ivo Timmermans <irt@cistron.nl> wrote:
> Heusden, Folkert van wrote:
> > > When running a script (perl in this case) that has DOS-style
> newlines
> > > (\r\n), Linux 2.4.2 can't find an interpreter because it doesn't
> > > recognize the \r.  The following patch should fix this (untested).
> > 
> > _should_ it work with the \r in it?
> 
> IMHO, yes.  This set of files were created on Windows, then zipped and
> uploaded to a Linux server, unpacked.  This does not change the \r.

Unzipping the files with the "-ll" option should fix that. There's no
particular reason why the kernel should handle CR+LF; LF has been the
end-of-line character for UN*X systems since Adam was a cowboy.
Changing it now would only lead to a situation where some things would
work with CR+LF and others wouldn't. Let's keep it simple...

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Bruce Harada
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