[TriLUG] CR/LF

[William Sutton]

Question for you guys saying "transfer it in ascii mode":  If I understand 
right, Windows is the one doing the CRLF conversion from normal (mac/unix) 
files.  Thus, sending it from one normal system (mac) to another (linux) 
shouldn't matter via either ascii or binary, correct?

I think he's going to have to opt for a solution like this:
1. mac user uploads file.working
2. mac user renames file.working -> file.ready
3. cron job finds file.ready, converts it dos2unix
4. cron job renames file.ready -> file.done
5. coder picks up file.done

Thoughts?

William

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Jeff Groves wrote:

> Another option is to transfer the files in ASCII mode instead of BIN 
> mode in FTP.
> 
> That is supposed to do the end of line conversion as well.
> 
> Jeff G.
> 
> Andrew Perrin wrote:
> 
> >>From memory, I think setting the FTP mode to "ascii" instead of "bin" will
> >take care of this - but it's been a while so I could be wrong.
> >
> >You could also run it through unix2dos which I think does essentially the
> >same thing. Or, barring everything else, you could run it through
> >
> >perl -pi -e 's/\013/\013\010/'
> >
> >Andy
> >
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> >Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
> >Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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> >
> >On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Mark Freeze 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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