6 Apr
2009
6 Apr
'09
5:20 p.m.
> Source files should not be giving you a
'record problem' (since they're
> text) - but there is another potential issue. I downloaded some BASIC
> source files on a PC, zipped them up and transferred them over to a VAX.
> I picked one to compile (this is BASIC we're talking about), and it
> failed with an error per line. I opened up the file in TPU and
> discovered that there was a 'spurious' CR at the end of each line. I
> removed those and everything compiled and linked. Take a look at the
> line-level translation that may be happening. -- Ian
New-line is not really standardized.
Although the machines may all claim to be using ASCII,
newline may be represented by
CR LF,
CR,
LF,
or LF CR (rarest)
The reasons are enough for a thread of its own.
This is almost exactly what I was seeing. I was able to resolve the problem
by NOT transferring the source files with FTP's binary image mode turned on.
I was then able to compile the source and I'm now in a maze of twisty
passages all alike.