Quote:>I have finished my web page. I resides on my Mac PPC. I used BBedit, a
>line editor for the text.
>When uploading a sample file to my unix account at the university (via
>modem/kermit), i notice that the returns are not recognized.
>So i go back to my PPC and save a copy telling BBedit to use unix line breaks.
>Uploading that file again, i notice that it still is unformatted (one big
>paragraph that spills over my terminal window) but now has a control-M
>character every time there was a return.
>This does not seem right, but will a browser interpret the necessary data,
>and ignore the control-M's??
> -- - thanks for any information you may have
> Kevin
Unix handles end-of-lines differently from PCs (and I guess Macs, although
I have no experience) - I think Unix uses just LF (=ctrl-J) and PCs use
LF,CR (ctrl-J,ctrl-M). Or maybe it's the other way around, but something like
that anyway. If you transfer files using FTP in ascii mode
the translation gets done so it looks OK at both ends, but HTTP doesn't
do that. However, it's nothing to worry about. It's a common problem
with WWW documents, and I can't imagine any browser getting upset about
the wrong sort of line terminators. I don't think they look at line
terminators at all.
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