CRLF / LF conversion, all over again

[David Brodbeck]

I've seen text logfiles that got well into the megabyte range.

The thing that makes me uncomfortable about all this is the business of
having to try to figure out what's a text file and what isn't.  Sooner or
later you're going to guess wrong, with unfortunately results.  Even  basing
it on file extensions isn't foolproof -- I've had FTP clients guess wrong
when presented with a file extension they weren't familiar with.  The
current approach is consistant, and I like consistancy when it comes to
software that I'm depending on to handle files correctly.

I can suggest some good Windows text editors that understand UNIX line
endings, and can convert between UNIX and MS-DOS conventions.  Going the
other direction is usually less of a problem, since the majority of UNIX
tools will deal with CRLF line endings okay.

-----Original Message-----
From: Timothee Besset [mailto:ttimo at idsoftware.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 5:57 AM
To: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: CRLF / LF conversion, all over again

- 5k at the end of 600Mb file .. text files are typically small. Odds are,
if it's 600Mb, it's binary. (at least in my case I don't have text files
that go above 100kb).