Subject: Re: File saved to ASIP server differs from file saved to Netatalk volume
From: Matthew Temple (Matthew_Temple@dfci.harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 14:09:03 EDT
Bill and the group,
We will be testing this later. I gather the newest version of
netatalk also includes the ability to have an volume administrator,
somethin which has been a very important lack. Now that
I look at this discussion, I'm convinced I'll find that DNAStar does
exactly what I've guessed below.
As usualy thanks to you all, the best tech support group
there is!
mht
"William R. Knox" wrote:
>
> Yes, sadly, more and more applications seem to be pulling this rather
> funky stunt when saving files. The new versions of netatalk
> (asun2.1.4pre39 as well as the netatalk 1.5 now in development at
> SourceForge) have the capability to do crlf on a per share basis, so it
> may be worthwhile for the folks who need to have it disabled to have
> their own share on an upgraded version.
>
> S N I P
> --
> Bill Knox
> Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
> The MITRE Corporation
>
> Matthew Temple wrote:
> >
> > Bill,
> >
> > Actually, that's an interesting thought. If DNA-Star say,
> > opens the file as a text document then changes the CREATOR/TYPE
> > after the fact, then Netatalk would get confused, wouldn't it?
> >
> > Of course, if CR/LF translation gets turned off, then the
> > ordinary text documents get munged, don't they?
> >
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