RE: Illegal characters/ .LSP files

[LARSSON@ntcclu.ntc.nokia.com]

Jeff Bishop <jbishop@nwu.edu> asked:

I have found that whenever I edit any Lisp files on the OS/2 system 
editor (or any of several other text editors which run on the same 
platform) I get an error message when I attempt to load them.  It says 
;; Loading file C:\Common Lisp\chapter5.lsp ...
*** - READ from #<STRING-CHAR-FILE-STREAM #"C:\\Common 
Lisp\\chapter5.lsp">: ill
egal character #\

I *suspect* it might have something to do with ^M at the end of a line, 
since I have experienced no such problems with the Unix version.  Does 
anyone know how to edit the files to make them readable in a DOS, 
Windows, or OS/2 environment?

	This problem is caused by the End Of File character (Ctrl-Z
	in DOS and OS/2). You can avoid it by using the TE/2 editor
	(download from ftp-os2.cdrom.com or nic.funet.fi), which does
	NOT write Ctrl-Z at the end of files.

	I think GNU Emacs will do the same service, but I haven't 
	tested it yet.

	Arne
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