Samba 1.9.18 DOS to UNIX and back with ASCII
David Collier-Brown
davecb at Canada.Sun.COM
Mon Jan 11 15:39:45 GMT 1999
You wrote {concerning CRLF translation]
| This is supposedly one of the selling points of VISION/FS, which is
marketed
| by SCO for their UNIX. It's supposed to handle this translation when
files
| are accessed from both UNIX and DOS/Win.
Yes, but's it's probabalistic: it generally takes a human to
know if a file is binary or not. Programs can get it right
for all files some of the time, for some files all of the time,
but program's can't get it right for all files all of the time.
This means that some binaries **will** GPF...
As Barnum also said, "there's a sucker born ever minute" (:-))
--dave
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