[ale] Stripping EOL Characters with samba

Gary Maltzen maltzen at mm.com
Fri Aug 11 11:22:13 EDT 2000


For editing text and source files, I suggest you pickup a (free) copy of
PFEdit which runs under Win95/NT and can store files in either UNIX or DOS
format including optional Ctrl-Z at EOF.

Fortune smiles; the Help-About dialog references a still-valid URL

  http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/


> I have a samba server running on RH 6.2 that has the users directories
> available as mount points via our NT network. We have a problem with EOL
> getting garbled whenever a file is edited on the client WinCrap box. Is
> there a method via samba to not mangle the EOL and leave it in unix format
> or will this have to be performed via the editor? Ideally, we would simply
> have everyone use vi to do editing, however our development environment
> requires some WinCrap interaction.
>
> Currently, we are simply having to convert via vi once the editiing is
done,
> however this is a problem waiting to happen. Any advice would be greatly
> appreciated.


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