Re: difficulty entering balance mode (SOLVED)

[Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net>]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:
>
>> After much fiddling, I found that my balance.bal
>> file had a flaw in it. This was not an issue of
>> name, extension, permissions, mode, etc. I was
>> unable to see the flaw, but when I copied the
>> content of that file to a new balance.bal, the
>> problem disappeared.
>
> ... really?

I had assumed, incorrectly perhaps, that if two files are identical in
respect to their observable properties (what is returned by $ ls -la),
the failure of one must be due to its content.