Jamis Buck wrote: > I can only imagine that something went terribly wrong when you > downloaded the file. :( I figured it out: it's from curl. To download the file, I did curl http://whatever >royal.ged Curl's output got mixed in with the file. (There was a curl line at the top that I had stripped out manually; that should have clued me in.) When I use the -o flag instead, like this: curl -o royal.ged http://whatever then I don't see any cruft in the file and the line endings are fine. Jim -- Jim Menard, jimm / io.com, http://www.io.com/~jimm