mc as cgi -- ftp'ing .txt file

[Ken Ray]

I've used TextPad (www.textpad.com) on Windows - it's a really cool text
editor that lets you save files in Mac, Windows and UNIX formats.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Dave Cragg
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:39 AM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: mc as cgi -- ftp'ing .txt file
> 
> 
> At 3:37 pm +0900 7/3/03, kweto wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Odd thing. Something seems to get lost/added to my mc-cgi 
> scripts that 
> >are first typed as .txt on Windows and then ftp'ed/emailed to my 
> >Apache-Linux server (as .txt) , because I'm finding myself having to 
> >retype the whole thing (with gnu emacs) on the server.
> >
> >Any guesses about what's happening to the file during transit? 
> >Invisible characters, such as carriage returns? And, is there a safe 
> >way of transferring .txt files so that they stay as is?
> 
> Windows standard line ending is crlf (ASCII 13 + ASCII 10), but you 
> need ASCII 10 only on Unix systems.
> 
> One easy way round the problem is to type your scripts in a Metacard 
> field (which uses ASCII 10 on all platforms) and directly ftp from 
> within Metacard.
> 
> put field "cgiscript" into url 
> "ftp://name:password@someserver.com/somepath/somefile.mt"
> 
> Cheers
> Dave
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