On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 19:43, Olga wrote: > > > > Have you used a hex editor to really see what the file contains? > > > > od -ha filename > > > > will dump the contents of the file in hex with the ascii. > > > > You can check the file before editing and after to really see what the > > contents are. > > > > -- > > Scot L. Harris > > webid@xxxxxxxxxx > > > I just ran the command you mentioned. In the file where I get an empty > line, I get the following after the last record: nl nul > Here's the end of that file: > 0002420 6148 0a6d 6957 6c6c 6169 206d 6148 7272 > H a m nl W i l l i a m sp H a r r > 0002440 7369 6e6f 000a > i s o n nl nul > 0002445 > > > But in the file where there's no trailing blank line (the one that I > edited with mc) at the end I get nothing (here's the end of the output) > 0000120 676c 0a61 6550 6574 0a72 6553 6e61 530a > l g a nl P e t e r nl S e a n nl S > 0000140 6574 6576 > t e v e > 0000144 ---- isn't the 0A the line feed character as we have been discussing? Isn't this exactly the expected behavior? Craig
