Dick Hill wrote:>
> New to the Samba world. I am getting a control M at the end of line for
each file I am transfering to the share from 98/NT machines. Any special
things I need to do so this will not happen??????????????
This is normal - while on Unix system new lines are signified by 'LF',
on DOS systems a 'CR+LF' is required. This, depending on your editor,
means that the 'CR' gets shown as '^M' to indicate an otherwise
unprintable charater. Other editors will notice these 'dos style' files
and automaticly use the dos new-line conventions.
In any case, there is a tool called dos2unix and unix2dos that can
handle the conversion for you. As to why samba dosn't do this
automaticly - it is nearly impossible to correctly identify a text file
during file transfer, and users would find their binary files silantly
corupted by the process.
Hope this helps,
Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett
abartlet@pcug.org.au