Subject: Re: How to fix CRLF stuff...
From: Peter DiCamillo (Peter_DiCamillo@brown.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 14 2001 - 17:35:09 EST
Jeremy Buchmann wrote:
> > Peter DiCamillo:
>> 2. When afpd creates a new file, the suppress translation bit is set
>> if the file is not translated at that time.
>
>Ok...but how does afpd know to translate the file? This is the problem I'm
>talking about...it seems you're talking about the problem of keeping track
>of what has or has not been translated.
Yes, I'm talking about a much less ambitious change than most of the
discussion has been about. Afpd would decide whether or not to
translate the file using the same rules as it does now.
> > Peter DiCamillo:
>> With this approach, a Mac user could use the Finder to copy a TEXT
>> file to a netatalk volume and back again without the file changing,
>> although it would not be translated for Unix users.
>
>This is how it works now unless you specifically set the crlf option in one
>of the config files...how has this changed anything?
What I'm describing is a change in how the crlf handling would be
done when the option is set. It would allow you to set the crlf
option, but no longer get that kind of corruption. You trade off the
fact that files won't get translated for Unix users if they were
written by "misbehaving" Mac applications that change the type to
TEXT later.
> > Peter DiCamillo:
>> This would be
>> compatible with a more comprehensive solution where afpd could be
>> told to either translate or not translate a given file. When the
>> suppress bit is off, setting the file's type to TEXT would force
>> translation, and would also be useful to the Mac user.
>
>Now I'm confused...how do we set the file's type to TEXT? Isn't that the
>problem...as of OS 8, Finder doesn't set the type before copying?
I'm referring to writing the AppleDouble file. In the AppleDouble
file you can store 'TEXT' as the Mac file's type at the same time as
you're modifying the suppress bit.
Peter
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