Re: [Hampshire] LaTeX on a samba share

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Author: Philip Stubbs
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] LaTeX on a samba share
2009/10/16 Jacqui Caren <jacqui.caren@???>:
> Philip Stubbs wrote:
>> Has anybody else seen this? This problem has only occurred since
>> upgrading to Karmic. My Google foo is weak today. Even suggestions of
>> where to look for answers would be appreciated.
>
> Sorry, brain is still asleep from a 4am burst of coding but I remember
> somethign similar relating to LF/CRLF translation via samba shares.
>
> There was a flag to control LF->CRLF translation for samba shares.
> Perhaps this has been enabled and is corrupting the files.


I don't think the problem is what is in the file. If I copy the file
to a local directory, LaTeX will process the file fine. If I try and
run LaTeX on the cifs mounted directory, LaTeX will complain that the
file is not there! Vim will edit the file fine.

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Philip Stubbs