Subject: Re: executables from windows files
From: Buddha (buddha@gci.net)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 00:09:54 AKDT
I've seen the same thing too. All of the returns show up '^M' appended at
the end of each line. To get rid of them I use EditPlus in Windows which
will let me save a text file in "UNIX mode" and it strips all of these
buggers out.
-Buddha
>
> The ftp program has the ability to convert carriage returns between the
> different UNIX and windowsend-of-line formatting conventions. What you
> may be experiencing is that when you download the file to a windows box
> the file automatically uses the dos end-of-line formatting. When this
> file is coppied to the Linux box there is no conversion of this
> formatting and thus the execution fails. This is prbably a multi line
> script. Check it out with a cat command (or type in the dos world).
>
> Rich
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Madden" <pabi@gci.net>
> To: <aklug@aklug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 7:14 PM
> Subject: Re: executables from windows files
>
>
>> On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 18:44, Chris Hamilton wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm getting this message when I try to execute a file that I've
>> > copied
> from
>> > a windows box. When I pull the same file directly from the web onto
>> > the linux box, and do a chmod and then execute it, it works. What
>> > is going
> on
>> > in the conversion from a windows box to a linux box that would be
> causing
>> > this?
>> >
>> > bash: ./iisfilter_gen.txt: bad interpreter: No such file or
>> > directory
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Chris.
>>
>> I am not sure if this applies but Windows ftp downloads files with
>> 'ascii' set as default, 'ncftp' for Linux uses 'binary' as the
>> default. Dependiing on what type of file you dl this can cause
>> problems.
>> --
>> Greg Madden
>> Precision Air Balance, Inc.
>> email:pabi@gci.net
>> Phone:(907)276-0461 Fax:(907)258-0461
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