expect send statement is including ^M

[William Harris_4]

greetings,

i'm executing an expect script that spawns an ftp process. when i send a lengthly line of input, it is inserting a ^M, characteristic of how an input line would wrap to fit your screen. does anyone know how to turn this behavior off?

thanks in advance,

chris

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Chris:

No doubt you have transferred the file in *binary* mode. Change the transfer mode to *ascii* and the problem will disappear. Windows systems use a linefeed/carriage-return sequence to denote an end-of-line. Unix uses a newline character (only). The carriage return is the ^M you see.

Regards!

...JRF...

[malay boy]

Yap,change it to ASCII mode.Just type 'a' enoght to change to ascii..

ftp>a

if you have document with ^M , you can do command dos2ux to remove the ^M.

# dos2ux %filename > %newfilename%

regards
mB

[Fred.Wu]

Hi:
this charactor is caused by "enter" action in windows editor.
use ascii mode to transfer file in FTP can avoid this.

Fred