Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Adam Aube wrote:
>> Windows and Unix-like systems represent newlines in different and
>> incompatible ways. This can cause problems if you edit a text file on
>> Windows and use it on a Unix-based system, or vice-versa.
> Indeed. A quick investigation of ncsa_auth shows it is sensitive to this,
> possibly failing if the password file is transferred between Windows and
> UNIX.
As are most other programs that read from text files. Either the local admin
needs to check for this after uploading (and fix using dos2unix or
similar), or use transfer programs that automatically convert on the fly.
Adam
Received on Sat Sep 25 2004 - 18:55:28 MDT
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