File Formats

DOS text file format differs from the HP-UX file format. HP-UX text file lines are terminated by the line-feed character. Client text file lines are terminated by the two-character sequence: carriage return and line feed. Because of this difference in file formats, files created by the HP-UX system are missing necessary carriage returns when accessed by clients. Files created by clients have superfluous carriage returns when accessed by the HP-UX system.

In general, PC clients who use only the Advanced Server/9000 do not need to be concerned with this discrepancy in file formats. There are, however, two conditions under which the discrepancy can become an issue which you, as the Advanced Server/9000 administrator, may be asked to help resolve:

You share an existing directory on the HP-UX system for your Advanced Server/9000 users. The files in such a directory are formatted to be read by the HP-UX system. They do not have the carriage return needed by the client file-formatting convention.

A user logs on to the HP-UX system and creates or manipulates a directory or file which a client also uses .




	NOTE: The Advanced Server/9000 provides the ud utility to convert files between HP-UX and DOS formats. For more information, refer to the section titled "Handling Incompatible File Formats" later in this chapter.

File Formats

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