Maybe OT: Automatic CRLF conversion?

[Shantanu Mahajan]

+-- Fernando Gleiser [freebsd] [22-05-03 17:05 -0300]:
| Here's my problem: I have a FreeBSD server running an aplication.
| The operators of the aplication (read: people who doesn't know Unix)
| need to upload some files to the server, and the aplication reads them.
| 
| The files are flat ASCII.
| They where using FTP in ASCII mode for that, but they wanted it
| to be "even easier", so I set up Samba on the server and they just
| drag and drop the files. The problem is with the CRLF conversion,
| because the app needs the files the unix way, but they upload them
| the DOS way.
| 
| I need an automatic way to handle the conversion, since there is nobody
| who knows Unix there, and I can't tell them "run such command". They
| have no shell access.
| 
| 
| I was thinking of writing a little script which runs from cron, converts
| the files and then moves them to the final dir, but maybe there is a way of
| doing it from samba itself.
| 
| Does anybody have any idea?
| 
| Thanks in advance and sorry for the OT.
| 
| 
| 			Fer
| ------------------------------

	col -bx < file > newfile

	This will remove ^M from the file.

	Regards,
	Shantanu

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