[TriLUG] CR/LF

[Ben Pitzer]

Mark,

This is the classic problem with text documents between Windows and
*nix.  Just run all files through unix2dos to pull them into any
Windows application, and you'll be all good.  As for making it
non-interactive....not sure.  But good luck.

-Ben Pitzer



On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:08:50 -0500, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a customer that sends files to my ftp site (currently on a
> Windows Server box) from his Mac platform.  The files are nothing
> special, just delimited text files. However they can be very large.
> (i.e. 100,000 records or 75MB)  The problem is this:  When I switched
> the ftp server to my Linux box, my Windows conversion programs no
> longer worked.  After much looking, I found the reason was that the
> files sent from the Mac had each line in the data termintated with a
> hex '0A'.  When placed on the windows box the file magically converted
> itself somehow to have a '0D' '0A', asc(13) asc(10), or cr/lf pair
> terminating each line. So, to make my long story short, when I
> download files from my Windows box, my VB programs can use them, but
> when I download them from my Linux server my programs crash. (Because
> of the missing '0D'  -  VB wants to have a line terminated by a cr/lf
> to use the LINE INPUT command.)  What do you think would be the
> easiest, and most importantly *non-interactive* way to handle this
> problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Regards,
> Mark.
> 
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