carriage-returns, linefeeds, ^M

[Joe Geiser]

Randal,

> I have installed samba 1.9.18p2 on a Sparc Solaris 2.6 box and am
> accessing the filesystems from a mix of Win95 and NT.  When files are
> edited on the pc and saved to the sparc filesystem, each line is
> terminated with a ^M.
>
> How should samba be configured to eliminate this behavior or are there
> scripts available to remove the ^M from text files?

I've had the same problem - and was pointed to an editor called PFE, which
will save files using the LF (Unix format) terminator.

It can be had from http://www.windows95.com/ and for the price (the same as
Samba, sans the Pizza Vouchers <g>), it cannot be beat :)

Best Regards,
Joe

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