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From: lhabert@clipper.ens.fr (Luc Habert) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: emacs converting perl script to file type DOS? Date: 20 Jan 2003 17:30:42 GMT "John Sage" : > Twice now in recent days I have been editing or creating a perl script > within emacs 20.5.1 and find that the script has become ID'd by emacs as > file type "DOS" That means your lines end with a `^M^J' pair instead of simply `^J' as is standard in unix. Seeing that, emacs automatically converts the EOLs, but it undoes the conversion when you save. > The issue is that bash generates a "[script] - No such file or directory" > error upon execution -- yes, it's executable, etc etc... This is normal : the first line of your script is something like #!/where/is/perl^M And there is no file named `perl^M', so that the kernel cannot find the interpreter, which is the meaning of the