Samba Digest 2089/2090 - DOS to UNIX Conversion

[Bryan Maggard]

At 11:12 PM 5/17/99 +1000, Axel Neumann wrote to Samba:

>If you want to view UNIX text files correctly on a W9x or NT client you 
>should use Wordpad or if you have you can also use Word. These two programs 
>display the files correctly and you can save them correctly (maybe there is 
>some problem with the extension).

Regarding the problem with extension, it is sufficient to place the intended
file name in double quotes (e.g. "my_code.c").  This prevents Word or Wordpad
from appending the .doc extension.


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