Win95/98/NT --> Solaris character issue

[Blake, Todd]

The samba team has a note on their site addressing this, and since there is
no 100% full proof way to determine what's ascii and what's not, there's no
way to make samba auto-convert text files.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hoyt, Travis (Contractor) [mailto:thoyt at harris.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 1:36 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Win95/98/NT --> Solaris character issue
> 
> 
> Had anyone addressed the issue of transfering text files from 
> a Windows system
> to a UN*X box and getting the ^M at the end of each line.  I 
> know this had to do
> with the line feed/carriage return issue between windows and 
> unix systems.  My
> question is, has anyone figured out a way, or is there a flag 
> for samba to,
> sanitize files so that they don't have those characters
> at the end?  Much the way ftp does when you put it into ascii 
> mode instead of
> binary.
> 
> I've looked through some of the docs at the samba site but 
> I'm not having any
> luck.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Travis
>