Re: [MacPerl] Transfering a script from unix to a mac.....

[robinmcf]

>At 14:36 +0900 4/18/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>line endings - make sure you convert these from Unix to Mac- most Mac ftp >>progs do this automatically to texts anyway John W Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >It's inherent in the FTP protocol's "ASCII" (text, "A") transmission >method... It's not a special talent of Mac clients. I didn't intend to say all other ftp clients excepting those on Macs don't translate line endings, but rather Mac FTP clients translate files to Mac line endings, with the hazy idea that all things are possible and that someone could try to PUT a file onto a server running MacOS using say a Unix FTP client. This was purely a spur of the moment thing, and I'd done absolutely no research into the effects or ramifications of trying to PUT a file from A. N. OTHER OS onto MacOS, and yes it's a totally absurd idea which doesn't stand up to the light of day because the file would be written using the server's local conventions, but there you go. However if you transfer a '.tar' file, the contents probably won't have the line endings converted automatically, and therein weird bugs lie, which was what I was actually driving at in this previous posting.