[vox-tech] Problems with missing 'missing' file

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Eric Lin (notapplicable.haha at gmail.com):

> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 03:43:54PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile a firmware flashing app (I have a MultiTech modem 
> > with a motorboating problem, and the firmware upgrade is said to be the 
> > answer) and keep running into the same error.  The app was developed for 
> > OSX, but the notes say it will run on Linux.
> 
> > I have seen a suggestion that running dos2unix will deal with those 
> > $'\r' lines, but dos2unix thinks it's a binary file.
> 
> I downloaded the source for this app and ran dos2unix on all the files.
> Afterward, I had to modify a few of the source files' headers to get it
> to actually compile. Also, I have automake-1.11, but make wanted
> automake-1.10 and aclocal-1.10, so I just made symlinks in my ~/bin
> folder.

You know, it's really worthwhile getting to know how to do
search/replace for such problems within vim.  For one thing, if you try
such a change and it doesn't seem to have worked correctly, you can just
do 'u' to undo, and try to refine your change.

In this case, something like 

:%s/\r//g

is probably all you needed.  That's

:  enters ex-type command mode
%  sets scope to all lines
s  search & replace
/  delimiter ahead of spec to search for
\r spec to search for
/  delimiter behind spec to search for and ahead of replacement spec
/  delimiter behind replacement spec (i.e., replacement spec is null, here)
g  and make the change globally, not just once.

You can of course do the same operation in 'sed', but doing it inside
the vim buffer gives you that ever-handy quick reversion.