From: graham on
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:20:46 +0000, Algazm wrote:


> Maybe this is a clue?
> I tried the "file <filename>" in the console for the 3 files mentioned
> above; the "unknown" and "diff" files returned "ASCII English text, with
> CRLF line terminators". The file I created just returns "ASCII text".

run dos2unix on the two files with carriage return and line feed line
termination.
From: Algazm on
graham wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:20:46 +0000, Algazm wrote:
>
>
>> Maybe this is a clue?
>> I tried the "file <filename>" in the console for the 3 files mentioned
>> above; the "unknown" and "diff" files returned "ASCII English text, with
>> CRLF line terminators". The file I created just returns "ASCII text".
>
> run dos2unix on the two files with carriage return and line feed line
> termination.

That didn't work.... I tried various options (ok, just -c option)..