Samantha S. Ollinger on Sat, 22 Mar 2003 08:51:06 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Update: php prob: downloads empty file


On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> The first is on a machine with one byte line-endings, the second
> thinks it's on a machine with two. That is, the web browser is
> adding a CR or LF (as appropriate) that wasn't there in the original
> file (and doesn't belong there at all, because it just so happens
> that a byte *looks* like one or the other without actually being
> such).
>
> Run wc -l on the file (on either system!) and you should see that
> wc(1) thinks it has 67 lines.


I did this: wc -l
and I got this on both files:  500922 so.tar.gz

Thanks for letting me know something new.

Samantha
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