[Zope] Newlines in objects

[Bobb]

There's a unix2dos command (google) that'll "fix" the dos file cr/lf.
It may help in your testing.
(maybe it's dos2unix... that would make more sense :) )



----- Original Message -----
From: "John Poltorak" <jp at warpix.org>
To: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Newlines in objects


> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 07:06:40PM -0600, J Cameron Cooper wrote:
> > John Poltorak wrote:
> >
> > >How are newlines defined in Zope objects? Are they the same across all
> > >platforms, or are they platform dependent?
> > >
> > >If I do a binary FTP download of an object, am I guaranteed to have an
> > >exact copy of the original object?
> > >
> > It's always done the right thing for me. As far as I can tell, any data
> > stored into a binary field (like File contents) or a string field
> > (Document contents) is stored and returned as presented. ZPTs, being
> > XML, may use \n only. But I do not speak with certainty: do you have
> > experience to the contrary?
>
> What I am trying to establish is what actually is the right thing, since I
> don't know.
>
> I have a problem uploading news objects using FTP and it may have
> something to do with newlines. Other object types upload fine.
>
> Some people have said that newlines have to be in Unix rather than DOS
> format, but I'm not sure if that is the case. AFAICT, it is only me who
> has this problem so I'm trying to establish exactly what Zope (or Plone)
> expect. What happens currently is that news objects are truncated at the
> blank line seperating the header from the body text of the file.
>
> It seems like a Plone issue, but I get a bunch of abuse when I ask on that
> list.
>
> >
> >        --jcc
> >
> > --
> > "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not
become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes
into you."
> >
>
> --
> John
>
>
>
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