On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Alex White wrote: > > 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? Not a blank line, a linefeed at the end of the last line. vi, on the other hand, always ends lines with a linefeed. Some programs that read a line at a time will break if the last line does not end with a linefeed. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs