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set ASCII type for .pl and .cgi

swong74

How do I ensure that the cgi's and perl scripts are not transferred as binary into UNIX environments? As binary, there are funky "^M" characters that prevent the scripts to work.

Thanks.

Ciao ?:-)
S. Wong

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Migrateduser

Easy, only run Linux or Solaris as a desktop OS Smiley Happy

There is no magical way, but some good practices are:
1. within a good text editor, you should be able to save as 'unix' format.
2. If you FTP a file, make sure you tranfer in ascii mode. If you run a command line ftp, type 'ascii' before you do a get/put.
3. From a solaris shell, run dos2unix on the file to rid yourself of the ^M if it is already infected w/ windows:
dos2unix myfile.pl myfile.pl

You could also probably write a perl script that detects this and cleans up infected files.

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Jed Michnowicz
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swong74

Maybe I need to clarify ... my source is on NT, my targets are UNIX. I know mixed platforms may provide some differences.

Upon further examination, I see that all the html files which were initially on UNIX, moved over to NT using FTP and/or mounted shares [ASCII mode], are now being deployed with ^M (behavior when you select binary mode). Browsers are more forgiving but the scripts are not.

Any ideas? I would rather not have to do the correction after deployment.

Ciao ?:-)
S. Wong

swong74

Darn, that was exactly what I was hoping not to do. Yes, I know the caveats of ascii/binary mode of transfer. But although I clearly transfer the file as ASCII to the NT box and do no editing in the interim, when I deploy back from the NT source to the UNIX target, voila ... there is ^M. :-(
ok, if there's no way to specify file type, I guess I'll just clean up after each deployment.
that's cross-platform for yah.
I wish I could ... but alas, NT has it's advantages for regular desktop users.
Thanks!

Ciao ?:-)
S. Wong