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- From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Lars is my hero! (was Re: apologies, but I still need a little help)
- Date: 5 Sep 1992 03:27:29 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Sep4.200011.28590@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <186qb2INNai1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
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- In a previous article, wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) says:
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- >>sh install.2.x -v 2.2.2d /usr/src/linux
- >>
- >>:command not found
- >>'yntax error near '()
- >>'nstall.2.x:5: 'kernelstuff()
- >
- >Did your files go via MS-DOS, so that the shell script (a text file) got
- >Unix newlines (a lonely LF) converted to MS-DOS newlines (CR then LF)?
- >It looks like you did. If so, you need to remove the CRs, with flip or
- >some other similar utility if you have one, or standard text utilities
- >(tr comes to mind) if you don't.
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- yeap.....those nasty control-m characters got all in their somehow.
- maybe dos ftp or mtools did it.
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- Should we put a warning in the FAQ about getting text files by FTP???
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- BTW, gcc 2.2.2d compiled nicely after I deleted all those ^M's....by hand. :)
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- MaThiEu a. LeWis "There is no middle ground/Or that's how it seems/For
- Thieves Like Us us to walk or to take/Instead we tumble down/Either
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