Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!vuwcomp!karen
From: karen@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Karen Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: NFS - heterogeneity of
Message-ID: <13212@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 18 Jan 88 10:45:41 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, Victoria Univ., Wellington, New Zealand
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I am working on a file server for a heterogeneous network that will allow
the sharing of files between different types of machines (by appropriately
transforming the files).  A simple case of this is text files.  I was
wondering how NFS handles this.

With PC/NFS how does the client on the PC handle mappings to and from CR/LF
(otherwise how can you read UNIX text files from the PC?).  If mappings are
done how are text and binary files distinguished?  What would happen if a
binary file from the PC, that had a LF in it, was moved to a file system
mounted from a sun and then moved back again?

NFS is designed for a non-homogeneous network, how does it handle mappings
from a server that does not use text files that have lines delimited by
LFs.

Thanks
  Karen
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