Hi, This is a second hand question and the machine in question is not reachable for testing, but...
On a fresh install of Slink emacs19 and emacs20 are both producing ^M's in the out put of some (but not all) shell commands. The word I have is: The ^M's I was referring to were in a shell within emacs when I give a shell command like "ls -lt". Other commands, like "df" do not contain ^M's. I'd like to point out that I cannot reproduce these on other Slink or Potato systems, even with the person in question's .emacs file. The machine is a Sony VAIO PCG-S17K which I setup earlier in the day, emacs is using the X display, not console mode (I don't know if console mode is affected). This is particularly important to *me* because I'm trying to switch my network off RH onto Debian and this is the Director's first experience with Debian (Ouch!) Many Thanks, -Jon