>> Can anybody tell me what is going on? Why do I get the trailing blank >> line. >> >> Thank you. >> >> Olga > > What are you using to edit the files in question? I know that > in FC2 and I think FC1, emacs asks you when you edit a file if > you want a blank line inserted at the end. Could this be what > you're seeing? > > Alex White > I have not tried emacs. I originally edited the files with nano. But later in order to get rid of that trailing blank line I used vim, nano, gedit and mc. Only in mc I was able to eliminate it. However, the server where the files are does not have mc (installing it is not an option). With gedit I see that there's an empty line at the end, I delete it, save the file, but when I reopen it, it's there again. So I am still puzzled.