is that it is difficult to determine when to convert. With FTP, most
of the developers utilize a user defined file extension list that isn't
too reliable.
A coworker came up with an alternative for our FTP apps that was much
more reliable. What he did was evaluate the first 1K bytes of data to
determine if it was a binary or ascii file.
I don't have time to work on this, but if someone on the Samba Team
wants more info, I'll see what I can remember and try to get them in
contact with the original author.
Bryan
--- "MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)" <don_mccall@hp.com>
wrote:> Charles,
> The reason you got this type of answer, partially, is because
> this topic has been discussed <to death> on this list several
> times. You might want to take a look at the searchable archives
> for the samba lists, and see what was decided and why, and other
> suggestions for your issue.
> Hope this helps,
> Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Marcus [mailto:CharlesM@Media-Brokers.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 11:45 AM
> To: samba@lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: Text Conversion
>
>
> Joel,
>
> Not everyone is a programmer, and if there is a way to do this
> automatically
> when the files are copied, so much the better, even if you are a
> programmer.
>
> Man, answers like that really gripe me sometimes.
>
> On the flipside, thans for the scripts -
>
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Joel Hammer
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 1:24 PM
> To: John Gaughan; samba@lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Text Conversion
>
>
> Samba doesn't do this for you.
> There is software out there that gives you drag and drop conversion
> from
> windows to linux/unix text formatting, and some of it is free.
> But, it is so easy to do, cat file | sed 's/
$//', why bother?> To go back, cat file | sed 's/^.*$/&
/'> This takes a newer version of sed.
> Joel
>
> > Is there any way to get Samba to convert text files like FTP does?
> I
> > searched everywhere in the online documentation for a way to
> specify file
> > extensions to convert, but found nothing.
> >
> > If I drag and drop a text file from my Windows machine to a Samba
> share, I
> > would like Samba to convert the end-of-line characters to the Linux
> format.
>
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