At 11:19 10/10/2003 +1000, Jared Yates wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org
> > [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org] On Behalf Of Chrissy
> > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2003 9:24 a.m.
> > To: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
> > Subject: Re: JetStream bill for a several thousand dollars
> >
> [snip]
>
> > I am trying to write a .procmailrc file to stop them before I
> > download them as I believe that I will blow my 5 Gig cap if I
> > am not careful. I am not getting the OR on the .procmailrc
> > file working and I cannot work out why. This is complicated
> > by the fact that I cannot edit the file and copy it back
> > because my system insists on putting in CRLFs instead of just LFs.
>
>Are you using ftp to move them back from a *nix system to a windows
>system? If so, make sure you set the transfer mode to binary before you
>transfer the file. We had the same problem here at work, where a file
>was being rejected as the end of line char was changing from LFs to
>CR/LFs due to the windows ftp prog transferring the text file in ASCII
>mode and munging the EOL's...

Umm, I think you have that backwards. You want to use ASCII mode when
transfering text files between a Windows and UNIX system, and the ftp
process will take care of converting the line endings for you.....

>Or, use an editor other than notepad (like ultraedit) which allows you
>to specify the file format (Unix, Dos, Mac etc) and the EOL character
>that should be used.

Or that... :)

Regards,
Simon

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