From: Ron K. <ro...@za...> - 2000-05-01 13:35:27
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> I was having all kinds of problems. Running ./configure and ./mh gave > "File not found". Got mh running with "perl mh" but then it crashed. I > finally figured it out though. I was unzipping using unzip on linux. > It seems that the files in the zip are in dos format, not unix, so if I > unzip in windows then ftp in ascii to linux, everything works fine! > Actually, I only had to do this for the files in the bin directory to > get it to work right. > > hope this clears it up..... Most unix unzip versions have a option like this: man unzip ---- -a convert text files. Ordinarily all files are extracted exactly as they are stored (as ``binary'' files). The -a option causes files identified by zip as text files (those with the `t' label in zip- info listings, rather than `b') to be automatically extracted as such, converting line endings, end-of- file characters and the character set itself as necessary. (For example, Unix files use line feeds ---- Regards, Ron. |