Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] CRLF
From: David Hamm (dhamm@luxbbs.itserve.com)
Date: Thu Jun 25 1998 - 15:58:29 EDT
I've allways felt that it was strange to have networking software also do
conversions. The -DCRLF feature has caused a number of problems for me
too. The solution might be to modify AFPD so that it only does CRLF
translation on cirtan directorys.
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Jan Dockx wrote:
> An experience that is worth sharing:
>
> When first installing netatalk, I had a long talk with myself deciding
> whether or not to activate eol-translation (-DCRLF in afpd Makefile). I
> found no convincing reason to choose one or the other. Both seemed to have
> advantages and disadvantages, but none definite. There is no real problem
> when you use a text editor that deals with different file system standards
> transparently, like BBEdit, and will not put "anonymous" binaries on the
> server to be used by a Mac.
> I decided to enable translation, because it was the default in the package.
>
> Now I have a definite reason why it should _not_ be enabled: pdf files.
> Adobe Acrobat pdf files have TEXT/CARO as file type and creator, and get
> translated. But the format doesn't allow that: opening valid pdf files from
> a netatalk server with eol-translation enabled shows blank documents.
> So I advise you to disable the eol-translation, and advise distributionists
> to change the default.
>
> Jan
>
>
>
>
>
> Jan Dockx - assistent (Jan.Dockx@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
> K.U.Leuven, Department of Computer Science
> Celestijnenlaan 200 A 03.28; 3001 Heverlee; Belgium
> tel.: ++ 32/16/32 76 56 fax.: ++ 32/16/32 79 96
> <http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~jand/>
> +---------------------------------------------------------------+
> "There's some joke making around about some mathematician
> that said that 1000 chimpansees in 1000 years sitting at
> 1000 typewriters would eventually write the works of
> Shakespeare. And the snap around the joke is that the Web
> proves this is not so."
> Kurt Vonnegut about the Internet
> in "Vonnegut's Timequake; All
> Things Considered, September 22,
> 1997; National Public Radio"
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Sat Dec 18 1999 - 16:32:51 EST