[Trlog] Line endings in *.dom files

[Jim Smith]

Hi Paul,

The file I was dealing with had only 0A at the end of each line which I 
subsequently replaced with 0D.  So each line now ended with 0D (just one 
of them).  I have since realized that other dom files all have 0D0A at 
the end of each line so now my file does too.  So, no need to get rid of 
the terminal 0A character in your file.

Sadly, this didn't fix the "too many mults" problem.  Neither did 
sorting the file in alpha order.

73, Jim   VE7FO

Paul Kirley wrote:

>I also had "too many mults" when using POST after the IARU HF event.  The file IARUHQ.DOM was suspected to be the problem source.
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>Tree sed:
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>>Is there the possibility of missing carriage returns in the file?
>>Maybe line feeds only?
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>Jim VE7FO sed:
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>>I had a look at the file with a hex editor and, indeed, every line ended 
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>in 0A (LF) instead of 0D (CR).  I replaced all the 0A's with 0D's and 
>the problem is solved.
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>Because I have a hex viewer but lack a hex editor, and so the ability to replicate VE7FO's solution, I investigated further.
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>Using Notepad to create a small text file by typing, and then viewing the result in hex, I verified that the standard Windows line ending in hex is "0D 0A" (without the quotes).  I usually edit *.dom files in Windows, but most of my edits are to true domestic files that don't get mult checked.
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>My copy of IARUHQ.DOM (which generates the error message) also has line endings of "0D 0A".
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>My experiments with Word and other Windows editors have all failed to get rid of the terminal "0A" character.  Doubling the "^p" paragraph symbol in Word produced "0D 0A 0D 0A" (to give "0A 0D" as the middle characters), but that didn't help.
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>Is it possible that POST is looking for the non-Windows line ending of "0D" (or "0D 0D" as in VE7FO's edited version)?  Or might the problem be caused because the Windows ending "0A" effectively becomes the first character of the next line?
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>73, Paul W8TM
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