Autumn -- Bear in mind that the characters <CR>, and <LF> ("Carriage Return" and "Line Feed", respectively) are non-printing characters -- even more invisible than a space or a tab -- this means that they probably won't show up in any obvious way when you view the file. "UNIX" is one of several major types of computer operating systems. The three most common operating systems today for microcomputers are DOS/Windows, UN*X and Macintosh. "UNIX" is actually a general name for a range of systems such as Linux, BSD, AIX, HP-UX and so on. SmartList runs under UN*X type systems. A "UNIX editor" is nothing more than a text editing program running on UN*X, or one that can write files out as if it was running on UN*X. You see, text editors tend to save text in the standard format for the platform they're running on. As Charlie mentioned, there are three major ways a line of text can be terminated, UN*X, MAC and DOS. Remember, for this discussion, both <CR> and <LF> are normally non-printing, all they do is tell the display to move to a new place, i.e. beginning of line or next line. So if you type: Hello World on DOS you got: Hello World<CR><LF> On MAC[1] you got: Hello World<CR> And on UN*X you get: Hello World<LF> To the SmartList program, which is all UN*X, that DOS <CR> gums things up. To answer your question, I believe there are programs you can download for DOS/Windoze which will allow you to edit in "UNIX mode." Since I stay as far from Windows as I possibly can, I don't know what a good one would be. Perhaps a google or deja search would help. On another note, please read about delinking files, and consider using rc.custom to make changes, rather than editing your rc.init. Finally, you should know that mailing list systems are designed to be _entirely_ maintained by the use of commands sent to the system *by email*, and "normal" operation (other than initial configuration and such) shouldn't require manual editing of the dist file, etc. I mention this as food for thought, as you re-read the manual and the FAQ. ;-) Pete. FAQ and Manual: http://www.hartzler.net/smartlist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] I don't know whether Mac OS-X, which is basically UN*X, follows the old MAC line termination style or the UN*X standard. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, B & A wrote: ...
My dist file is beautiful. No <CR>s that I can see, no empty lines.... of course, I know nothing of this Unix editor of which you speak...
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I'm new to this list management thing, and know nothing about Unix. Is there a text editor I can download? ...