I would imagine the "junk" was a non *nix-ish carriage return/line feed
combination. I have been bit by that one myself when moving text files
between Windows and Linux.

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Andy Smith, MCP
wasmith32@earthlink.net
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Stuart Fuller wrote:
> Joe Wilk wrote:
>
>>Foolishly, I used the gedit editor that came with redhat 9. When I
>>realized that I had been punk'd, I edited the junk out of the file and
>>ran it. Everything good.
>>
>>To other newbies: Beware, not all text is wysiwyg (what you see is
>>what you get). Jeeezus!!!
>
>
> I'd be very interested in seeing what "junk" was added to the tail of the
> file.
>