[PENNMUSH] .nws is smelly and ugly :(

[Alan Schwartz]

Quoting Alex Grayson (lightningtheargent at yahoo.com):
> Okay, all joking in the title aside, my news files
> seem to be screwed up. I edited index.nws as follows:
> 
> & NEWS
> (insert 78-col divider here)
> theme   code
> (insert 78-col divider here)
> 
> And left 'code.nws' alone. Then I made two theme
> files, theme.nws and theme2.nws.
> 
> &theme
> (insert 78-col divider here)
> (insert text here)
> (insert 78-col divider here)
> 
> and
> 
> &theme2
> (see &theme)
> 
> So now when I start PennMUSH running and log in, and
> type 'news', the nice index that I made runs together
> with 'news code'. And when I type 'news theme' it
> gives me theme.nws and theme2.nws smashed together
> into one big block. Uhm....help?

Does adding a blank line to the end of the files help?

Perhaps your files end with partial lines and that's screwing
things up.

Another possibility is line-ending mismatch, if you're editing
these files on a different OS than your mush runs on or
transferring them between machines by ftp.

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