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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:58:59 -0600
From: Daniel Thill <thill@umr.edu>
To: Doug Fee <doug.fee@unisys.com>
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Subject: Re: SMBFS Unix to Windows End of Line Problem
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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

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