On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 16:49, Doug wrote: > just from a windows partition to a linux one, ftp however yields the same > result. I think it's an encoding issue of the file itself??? Assuming two things: 1. You can open the same files in Notepad or other plain-text editor on Windows just fine. 2. The files really are plain ASCII text. Then it might be that during the copy process, the extra carriage-return characters are not being stripped out of the files. Normally, ftp will do this as long as it is in ASCII transfer mode. Also, it is possible to tell mount (in your /etc/fstab file, I don't remember the option off-hand) to convert Windows CR-LF combinations to just plain line feeds for Linux. But if your fstab is not set to do this, and/or ftp is transferring files using binary mode, then the Linux text editors may be seeing the files as binary. Dave -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010919/d66e8c07/attachment.pgp