Re: File truncated at ^Z character in windows

["Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il>]

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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:13:18 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> wrote:
>
> > From: John Russell <jorussel AT cisco.com>
> > Date: 17 Feb 2004 14:15:12 -0500
> >
> > I copied the offending file from a samba share on my linux machine
> > over to the windows machine.  I didn't open it or edit it with any
> > editor until NTEmacs opened it.
>
> So it sounds like samba did this.

I don't think it is a samba problem. We employ a samba (on GNU/Linux)
with a share of over 50GB and about 200 M$Windows users. It is working
over 3 years and no one reported any such problem.

- From my experience it work just like any M$Windows share.

The only way it can happen is if the copy was a TEXT copy (i.e. not
binary).  The M$Windows `copy' has switches that control its mode:
  /A           Indicates an ASCII text file.
  /B           Indicates a binary file.

> Anyway, the advice to move the files in an archive, like a tar.gz
> file, is still valid, I think.

I think that is because the M$Windows `copy' select the mode (text/
binary) according to the file extension if not specified explicitly.

Ehud.


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