Re: [hosers-talk] ^M

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "Jon Stewart":
> > > It works, sort of. Other scripts that this one references seem to have 
> > > similar problems. Nuts.
> > 
> > Looks like your scripts were borked somehow. Were you editing them with 
> > WordPad or something? :)
> 
> 
> Nope. But I did untar and unzip them on my shitpad, then copied everything 
> over to my iMac (which sometimes has a difference of opinion about what 
> constitutes an end-of-line character). MacOS X's default tar is the old, 
> braindead kind -- only likes small file names. I haven't gotten around to 
> installing gnutar.
> 
> It's all good, though. Tomcat is up and running. Now I can teach myself 
> servlets.

Aha. The bad old newline problem. That would have been my next guess, based 
on the control codes you were getting as errors.

-- 
J.