Roger Fischer <rogerf1@mac.com> is suspected of writing the following on 4/5/00
at 9:43 PM :

> At 10:36 PM -0700 4/4/00, Erik Huizing wrote:
> >the character conversion in netatalk doens't seem to be working.
> >I've got these lines in AppleVolumes.system:
> >
> >#.       BINA    UNIX
> >.       TEXT    ttxt
> >
> ># text files
> >.txt    TEXT    ttxt
> >
> >I added the .txt, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. I open up the
> >file, and the conversion didn't happen.
> 
> Erik,
> 
> I don't think the mapping in the AppleVolumes is for CR<->LF translation.
> I think that is just for assigning a files's creator and type based
> on the 3-character filename extension.  It doesn't do anything else to the
> file.
> 
> Netatalk does the CR/LF translation automatically for all text files.
> the line below from the faq at http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk
> tells how to disable that feature.
> 
> 
> 2.5 How do I disable CR/LF translation?
> 
>      To completely disable all CRLF translation, you should remove -DCRLF
> from afpd's Makefile.
> 
> 
> 

Actually, in my version (1.4b2+asun2.1.3) cr/lf translation is off unless you
turn it on in the /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.system file. This file is self
explanatory... (w/ comments).



Joseph Laffey
LAFFEY Computer Imaging
St. Louis, MO
http://www.laffeycomputer.com/
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