On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:37 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
When I cut and paste the above script into 'od -c', I see that the '-' characters are not simple ASCII characters but a 3-byte sequence "\342\210\222" in octal. That explains what you are seeing. How on Earth they got that way is another question altogether.
Actually, what I did, was copy the script from Evince and into vi, so that's how the - characters got all wacky. The solution was, to just type it out.
Thanks for your help, -Gezim