Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:58:59 -0600 From: Daniel Thill <thill@umr.edu> To: Doug Fee <doug.fee@unisys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMBFS Unix to Windows End of Line Problem Message-ID: <20020102165859.A9722@umr.edu> In-Reply-To: <3C338EC8.D20C9A67@unisys.com>; from doug.fee@unisys.com on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:50:48PM -0600 References: <3C338EC8.D20C9A67@unisys.com>
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> SMBFS works great, however, I do have a problem which I cannot > figure out how to get around. Text files in Unix terminates the > line with just a linefeed whereas in Windows it terminates with a > carriage return and linefeed. So when I save a text file to a SMB > share and my coworker looks at it with his Windows box, he sees one > long record. Is there a way to get the carriage return in and out > of the file depending on where it is read/written to? Seeing how the text file is being stored on the unix machine, then I don't think there is a way, but I may be wrong. You might find it easiest to just find your co-worker a text editor that will automatically handle unix-type text files. The win32 port of Emacs comes to mind :) -dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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