Hence, a unix machine will receive files with unix newlines and a windows machine will receive files with windows newlines.

If you checkout a file on a windows machine, make changes, and then transfer the file to a unix machine to check it in, the unix cvs command will not perform the correct newline conversion as the file is written into the repository. The next windows user who checks out the file will receive it with extra newlines!

This situation is most common when a Samba share is being used to share source files between windows and unix developers. The samba share may or may not be configured to auto-convert text file newlines.

JBuilder will handle the file either way, as long as the newlines within the file are consistant (right or wrong.) However, JBuilder will get very confused if half the file has windows newlines and the other half has unix newlines.
2001-Jun-02 11:41am gyles19@visi.com