From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T23:13:43+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get a newline when writing file from PC to Linux using Samba

El Jul 11, 2007, a las 3:18 PM, billbell52 escribi�:

> I am trying to write a text file on Unix (via Samba) from a Ruby
> program running on the PC.  I am trying to get the end of line
> correct.  I cannot get the Unix newline character (0x0a) in the file.
> I am getting the same results when writing to either the PC or Linux
> so Samba is not the issue.   How do you do this?

"\n" to native newline I/O conversion depends on the runtime  
platform, which in your case is Unix. In Unix no conversion is  
needed, so if you print a "\n" in Unix that's what you get (a single  
character with octal code 012).

To output CRLF, the convention in your _target_ platform, output "\015 
\012" by hand.

The whole story is explained here

   http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/08/17/understanding- 
newlines.html

it is Perl-based but what explains applies to Ruby as well (expect  
perhaps for the corner case of Macs before OSX).

-- fxn