Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] CRLF
From: Vivek (vivek@imaginet.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 30 1998 - 10:30:32 EDT
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Kadinger Andras wrote:
> 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).
Having CRLF work automagically both ways so that files mistranslated one
way could be fixed by putting them back through the other way... sounds
useful.. how would this work, flipping \r --> \n and \n --> \r for a
file of type TEXT every time it went through afpd?
-- No good deed goes unpunished.
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