Re: Help. I can't command-line encode!

Hi Ariel,

I encountered exactly the same issue that you did, as have many others
apparently.

The cause of this issue is bizarre, and rather hilarious, actually.

As another user wrote to this newsgroup back on Aug 29, 2004:
"Eureka. The answer is simply that en dashes (ANSI 150) have been used
in the help file rather than true minus signs (ANSI 45). Commands
copied and pasted from the help file will fail."

So, in other words, simply delete the "-" characters shown in your
command line and replace them with new "-" characters typed from your
own keyboard, and the commands should work fine for you.

I can confirm that it just worked for me.

Good luck. : )

.

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