On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:27:58 -0500, Mark Freeze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just so you guys will know... > > I am transferring the file from the Linux box to Windows via a Samba > share. The 'FileSystemWatcher' component of VB.net watches the Samaba > directory for any change, then starts my series of programs on the > downloaded file. > > Another thing: (If it matters) > The amount of cr/lf's vs. cr's or lf's needs to be exact in the > conversion process. The files I am downloading are print-image > medical bills so any stray characters are disastrous to the output. > GIGO at its fullest. > > Did someone say Samba might perform the conversion ?
Your question prompted me to do a bit of googling, and it seems that the Samba developers got this as a frequent request, but I don't know that they ever came up with a satisfactory solution to the problem of reliably detecting which files should be converted in general. Another factor was that apparently lots of DOS/Windows programs actually are quite happy with files which are delimited by CR instead of CRLF. Another complication is what to do about files which might be partially binary and partially text like a zip or tar file. Here's a link to a patch which someone cooked up back in 1997 as an attempt to have samba automatically convert http://www.davideous.com/samba_crlf/ he also describes the above problems. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
