Re: HTML coding and UNIX

by Kayla Block <kblock(at)placeware.com>

 Date:  Wed, 05 May 1999 13:27:35 -0700
 To:  hwg-software(at)hwg.org
 In-Reply-To:  hwg
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At 12:07 AM 5/5/99 -0700, Nell wrote:
>I have encountered some problems with cgi bins and canned codes.
>Apparently, editing cgi scripting within Notepad and other editors will
>insert spacing and line breaks which then affects the operation of
>scripting.  I was told there was an html editor out there which provided
>an option to save the document specifically for a Unix server, etc.  If
>I recall, the name of the editor started with a 'U'.  Any ideas?

I don't know what starts with a U but Homesite will save files with unix
line endings. But the simplest way to deal with it is to use dos2unix. From
the unix command line, type dos2unix <file-source> <file-dest>

Kayla

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