[Samba] escape character

[Kevin T]

in vi

:%s/^v^M//

ctrl v escapes the ctrl m

--- Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:43:55AM +0100, Birkmose
> Anders Joon-Soo wrote:
> > I have samba 3.0.23d installed on a AIX (5.2) UNIX
> server and have
> > mapped a network share on my PC'er.(Windows XP)
> > 
> > My problem is when adding simple text files from
> my PC'er to the share
> > and want to edit them in a 'vi' editor, there have
> been added a escape
> > character (^M) in the end of each line in the
> file. Its properly a
> > 'carriage return' or 'line feed' conversion
> problem.   
> > 
> > It's the same as when ftp transfer a file from
> Windows to the Unix in
> > binary mode. When transferring files in Ascii mode
> there is no problem.
> > 
> > The Unix server is running a ISO8859-1 charset. 
> > 
> > Can any tell me if there is a setting in SWAT I
> can set to prevent this
> > escape character?
> 
> No, Samba does not do this. recode, unix2dos and so
> on are
> utils to do this on the server side.
> 
> Volker
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