[SLE] Fwd: Re: [SLE] Unix compatible text editor for Win98
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, Anurag Jalan wrote:
Hi all,
My programmers are at their wits end.. whatever cgi/perl scripts they create under Win98 just don't run under Unix ...
Can you recommend a good editor that they can use ?
Regards
Anurag
I end up working on my perl scripts in windows alot. I have never had a problem. The key is not the editor, but how you transfer the file from win to unix. Make sure to transfer in binary mode not ascii. I have used wordpad (not recommended but it does work), notepad, etc. Most of the time I use Homesite. It's an HTML editor, but it also does context highlighting for perl and makes work on the corresponding html files easier.
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darren R. Weber drw@linuxfan.com ICQ# 2849193 http://drw.penguinpowered.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You probably know this already but... Win9x saves text files with .txt extention. Removing that at the server solved this problem for me. Although I *should* have caught
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Subject: Re: [SLE] Unix compatible text editor for Win98
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 06:40:10 -0400
From: Tim Shann
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