Re: RH6.0 C compiler doesn't recognize "\"y

Orin Eman (orin@nwlink.com)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 02:00:26 -0700 (PDT)


> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, WANG,YIDING (HP-SanJose,ex1) wrote:
>
> > I do feel the problem is dos file format xfer issue. Under Soalris or
> > Unixware enviornment, if the ^M is at the end of line, it will shows up. I
> > have been dealing those under Unixware and Solaris a lot. However, all my
> > problem lines under Linux does not show anything after "\". Even I replaced
> > the rest of line after last character with a "\", it still causing problem.
>
> It depends on the editor...i believe pico does not show the embedded \r's,
> whereas joe and others do show them.

The vi is probably 'vim' and it doesn't show the \r's. My version does however
report [dos format] when it reads the file.

The file can be written without the \r's with the following commands:

:set fileformat=unix
:w

HTH,

Orin.

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