Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] CRLF
From: Kadinger Andras (bandit@fido.hu)
Date: Fri Jun 26 1998 - 10:21:22 EDT
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Vivek wrote:
> That is strange - they seem to be set as 'PDF /CARO' here... which as you
> can imagine, works fine. Odd. I've found a useful trick is to set the
> default translation to BINA/UNIX, so you only get translation on files
> specified by a Mac as being TEXT/<blah>. Solved all of my CRLF problems.
However, some versions of Word from the Gates empire were reported to
create files with type TEXT, save their proprietary binary format into it,
and then change the type to the correct one; this case would be a point
against using CRLF, at least in it's current form. I wonder, what happened
to my CRLF_TWOWAY patch (making even translated files binary compatible
when read again on the Mac), which could be extended also to eliminate
gotchas like the one described above by translating on-disk data when
changing type (this would be slow, but at least would 'unbreak' some CRLF
issues). Who knows, someone even might want to extend it to translate
between charsets in text file data (of course, with configuration
possibilities).
Is anyone interested in having the above features?
Sincerely,
Andras Kadinger
bandit@freeside.elte.hu
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