To whom it may concern.
As some issues lately discussed on both lists
evidently show, there is not to much attention
paid to REAL PURITY of all, or at lest some
linux config files, in particular axports file.
It is CRUCIAL, that axports file:
- CAN NOT contain ANY EMPTY line at all!
If additional space is necessary between
lines then usual spaceholder "#" is fine,
- CAN NOT contain ^M (CR - in hex 0x0D)
code at the end of any line!
NOT RESPECTING above two rules may result
in unpredictable behavior of many AMPRNet
software, not to mention FBB BBS, URONode.
Presence of ^M (CR) code can be viewed
and corrected, for instance, in Midnight Commander,
VI and well known Emacs editors.
From the other hand, simple and friendly editors
like nano and joe, apparently are useless...
There are few nifty tools that may one use for
removing ^M characters, even from bunch of files
without editing. Best known is dos2unix available
for all linux like distros.
Best regards
_____
Tom - SP2L
(ex sp2lob)
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