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Hi Michael and collaborators,
I have installed Elegant, SDDS ToolKit and Cygwin in a second laptop.
When I try to run a script as I do in my other computer (for instance, ./runScript in twissDerivatives example)
I receive the error:
in mode r: Invalid Argument

When I run a script that I use all the time in my old computer (saved in WorkPad), the new installation detects an error:
$'\r' : Command not found, although there is no "r" character in the line (I suspect it objects to a blank line).
This error is followed by other "command not found".

I installed the SDDS toolkit several years ago in my old computer; I naver had any problem and never updated it.

Thanks, cheers, Max

Well my first thought is that this has something to do with the carriage return character. On Linux it is defined as /n and on Windows it is /n/r. I remember that the cygwin installation gives you the option to choose which style carriage returns to use. So I suspect that cygwin is looking for /n and Wordpad saved the script with /n/r, so the script is now seeing /r and thinking it is a command of some sort. I know that I cannot use Wordpad for editing scripts for this exact reason. Instead I have installed Xemacs for Windows. I believe it is also optionally included with cygwin.

Thank you for your advice.
There is a little application called DOS2UNIX downloadable from the WEB that also fixes text file problems, and the one
I described in my note.
Regards, Max