[TriLUG] CR/LF

[Mark Freeze]

I know that VB.net has a component called 'FileSystemWatcher' that
watches a directory for changes and allows you to take actions based
on that event.  Is there anything like this in Linux or would you have
to script it out for a certain directory and have cron run it over and
over?  Also, if you used a script with cron, how would you make sure
that the file had fully downloaded to your site?  I know one time I
pulled a file from my ftp server that was in the middle of
downloading.


On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:21:53 -0500, Ben Pitzer <bpitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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