I have students who are using the vi editor in Linux to write C programs. When they use Core FTP Lite to transfer files to Windows the file comes back as one long line with boxes where the end of the lines are supposed to be (as viewed from notepad). Yes - I know that Windows and Linux deal with the end-of-line differently.
When a program is created in notepad, then transferred to Linux, then edited with the vi editor, then transferred back to Windows everything appears to work just fine. When the file was transferred back to Windows it was transferred to a different location so that a new file was created in Windows.
The files created in Linux with the vi editor have been transferred both in ASCII and binary modes with no change in the result. The files created in Linux with the vi editor have been transferred with Core FTP Lite using both ANSI and Unicode encoding with no change in the result.
I have students that have run into this issue using different Windows versions: 98, XP, ...
I have been able to recreate the problem myself using Windows XP with SP2 along with all of the other Microsoft Updates. (Core FTP Lite build 1385)
Part of the class is learning to use UNIX/Linux - both X-Windows and command line. The students use Core FTP for two purposes: (1) printing program files from Windows after using remote access - SSH; (2) backing up their programs.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!!