03-22-2002
Textual oddity
This is my first post!! I really hope this question hasn't been asked a thousand times before(I'll bet it has).
Anyway, here it is. I am new to the UNIX world by the way so forgive my ignorance. OK, whenever I write code on my windows machine and then try to port it over to UNIX I always get some bizarre newline character problems. So my question is how does the UNIX world represent the newline character exactly? Its \n in Windows. I know this is a dumb question hehe.
Also, if anyone knows why exactly emailing text files using MS Outlook to UNIX causes so many porting problems that would be helpful as well.
Thanks in advance!
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
gpe-question
GPE-QUESTION(1) gpe-question GPE-QUESTION(1)
NAME
gpe-question - GPE interface for asking questions from shell scripts.
SYNOPSIS
gpe-question [---icon] name {--question "Question text"} {--buttons icon1:text1} [icon2:text2 ...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
gpe-question provides dialogues to raise a question within the GPE Palmtop Environment with cancel and ok buttons.
OPTIONS
--question STRING
The question to ask the user via the dialogue.
--buttons type:label
The type and label of the button(s) to be shown. Repeat for additional buttons.
EXAMPLES
gpe-question "test" --question "Do you want to check first?" --buttons YES:yes NO:no
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version
published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
AUTHOR
Moray Allen
Author.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007 Neil Williams
Debian 1 January 16, 2007 GPE-QUESTION(1)