This might depend on when you deal with the file. I would think the only time this is a real issue would be when you display text contents or open the thing up in a text editor. If this be the case, I would recommend a good editor that will recognize the end-of-line convention in use and retain this upon saving the file. NoteTab pro is one such editor that will do this. Thus you can edit unix or DOS/Windows from the same place and have no difference to you. Sorry for the off topic nature of this message but figure this would help this guy out til he sees more of the light and comes fully into the unix family:). -----Original Message----- From: Rich Caloggero [mailto:rjc@xxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:00 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Samba - windows and unix end-of-line conventions I've finally got Samba working. What I originally invissioned using it for is to be able to administer a linux server remotely from a windows machine. I like windows for its file browsing and easy text editing (cursors are tracked and movement commands are easy and intuitive). I have bad hands so typing filenames gets tedious, so running linux from the shell gets hard on the hands. Emacspeak is ok, but I use windows for e-mail and music stuff, so it just seems natural to use it for my user interface stuff, and linux as my server machine. Now for the question: the unix newline convention is to terminate lines with just a line feed character (ascii 10). WIndows insists on seeing the pair of characters ascii 13, followed by ascii 10. Is there a way to have Samba do some sort of translation when a file is opened from the windows side, perhaps based on the file extension, which would turn any unix end of line sequences into windows sequences, and vice versa when the file was written back to the Linux end? Seems like something someone has implemented, but where to find it... Seems like something one could do with a shell script, but how to get Samba to call it... Rich _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
