<p>Actually I have found the problem, and leanred some new stuff along with it.</p>
<p>Apparently all Linux files have a mime type information stored in them, which can be checked using command:</p>
<p>file -i <filename></p>
<p>For my extensions.ael, which I copied from a different server, the mime type is 'text/x-c' whereas all the other files have mime type 'text/plain'. Now if I create a new file extemsions.maelstrom on this machine which is by default 'text/plain', there are no errors on doing 'ael reload', however using extensions.maelstrom with mime type 'text/x-c' gives errors, though the code works fine.</p>
<p>How it got mime type 'text/x-c' on the other machine, Vim which I use there assigned it this mime type. I'll have to fix it there.</p>
<p>Now I am trying to figure out how to convert between mime types. A simpler solution is to just copy text to a new file, but would be nice to do a proper conversion.</p>
<p>Zeeshan A Zakaria</p>
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<p><blockquote type="cite">On 2010-08-25 12:01 PM, "Watkins, Bradley" <<a href="mailto:Bradley.Watkins@compuware.com">Bradley.Watkins@compuware.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><p><font color="#500050"><br>From: <a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] On B...</font></p>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:43 AM<p><font color="#500050"><br>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion</font></p><b>Subject:</b> Re:
[asterisk-users] AEL - what is error: ael.flex:647 ael_yylex:Unhandled
char(s):<br></font><br></div><p><font color="#500050">That's what I understood too from this one and probably only related google search result, but even ...</font></p><p><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Is there
any chance that these files were edited on a Windows machine and then copied
back to the Asterisk boxes? That is, are there some nefarious ^m
characters hiding in there?</font></span></p>
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<p><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Regards,</font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">-
Brad</font></span></p>
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