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Illegal character \015 with beta2?

Dec 23, 1998, 11:59 AM
khayu
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Dec 23, 1998, 11:59 AM
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Illegal character \015 with beta2?
Has anyone installed the beta 2 successfully?

I just downloaded a copy and tried to install to my server, after following the instructions (linkcs.cfg, chmods), I ran admin.cgi to test it and received a 500 error. So I went to telnet and ran admin.cgi from the command line, here is what i got:

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Illegal character \015 (carriage return) at /home/shweinc/www/cgi-bin/khayu/links/admin/db.pl line 19.
Content-type: text/plain

Error including libraries: (Maybe you didn't strip carriage returns after a network transfer?)

Make sure they exist, permissions are set properly, and paths are set correctly.

Thanks for your help.

P.S. What's Megalinks that I keep seeing in this forum?
Dec 23, 1998, 12:21 PM
Namshin Kim
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Dec 23, 1998, 12:21 PM
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You must have transfered the files by binary mode. Every files of the links are ascii files.

solution 1.
when transfering by ftp, use following procedure.

prompt
ascii
mget *

it will transfer all the files by ascii mode.

solution 2.
if you are used to using vi command, you can modifie all the files in vi.
the command is :1,$s/^M//
^M : ctrl-v and then press ctrl-m