help editing files in linux!!

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 17:59 -0800, mike wrote:
> i'm ftping a linux config file over to windows and editing it in
> windows.  when i send it back to linux i see all these ^M characterse
> in the doc.  how do i edit it in a safe way or how do i prevent the
> garbling on the return back to linux?

That's why you should download and upload text files in text (ASCII)
mode and not "bin" or "image" mode.

Try reuploading using text mode:

	ftp> ascii
	ftp> put whatever

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