After Joe,
Unfortunately, EDIT/3000 also doesn't have a clue about bytestream
files, so although it will text one in (truncating any records over
255 bytes long), when you keep it, it will create the resulting file
as variable length, not bytestream. So, allow me to modify Joe's
example slightly:
:COPY /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf,smbconf.pub.samba
:EDITOR
{HP banner here}
/t smbconf.pub.samba
{edit the file}
/K;E
{reply to prompts and get out}
:PURGE /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
:RUN TOBYTE.HPBIN.SYS;INFO="-at SMBCONF.PUB.SYS
/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf"
The TOBYTE takes the variable length file and creates a bytestream file from
it.
The '-a' option tells it that it to treat the source as an ASCII file, and the
'-t'
option tells it to truncate trailing spaces. Using this method, you can edit
any
bytestream file. If you want to use QUAD, then replace the initial COPY with
a
:RUN FROMBYTE.HPBIN.SYS;INFO="/usr/local/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Joe Geiser
> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 3:28 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Editing SMB.CONF -- Sort Of
>
>
> Patrick after Donna,
>
> Yes to both...
>
> smb.conf is a bytestream file, and should be edited with an
> editor that can
> handle such files. QEDIT (and QEDIT for Windows) does the
> trick nicely, as
> does PFE. If one must, vi will also work. If you WANT to
> use EDITOR, it
> too, can be used, but on a COPY of smb.conf:
>
> :COPY /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf,smbconf.pub.samba
> :EDITOR
> {HP banner here}
> /t smbconf.pub.samba
> {edit the file}
> /K;E
> {reply to prompts and get out}
> :COPY smbconf.pub.samba,/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
> Overwrite existing.....? YES
>
> A pain? Yes... Functional if one dosen't have QEDIT, cannot
> download PFE
> or cannot navigate vi? Yes. Would I use it? Not anymore,
> although this is
> how I edited these files when I started using Samba a long time ago.
>
> One editor that will NOT work at all, even this way, is QUAD.
> The resulting
> file after the COPY are Variable Length Records, and QUAD
> (Jim will correct
> me, I'm sure, if incorrect) will not handle variable length records.
>
> Secondly - a blank line at the end of the file is a good
> idea. What it's
> really looking for is a Carriage Return. The standard
> suspects for editors
> will give you this... the LF character at the end is ignored.
>
> Best,
> Joe
>
> ========================================================
> Joe Geiser
> CSI Business Solutions, LLC
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick Fourny [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 2:34 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Editing SMB.CONF -- Sort Of
> >
> >
> > Also be sure that the last line in smb.conf be an empty line.
> > I've already seen some strange behavior like nmbd/smbd stopping
> > unexpectedly if it's not the case.
> >
> > Patrick.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Donna Garverick [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > > Sent: 29 December 1998 00:54
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: Editing SMB.CONF -- Sort Of
> > >
> > > An anonymous Curtis Larsen wrote :-)
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm having a little problem in editing the smb.conf file
> > (linked on
> > > my
> > > > system to SMBCONF.PUB.SAMBA).
> > > >
> > > > Everything appears to be fine, whether using EDITOR or
> > vi, but when
> > > I try
> > > > using testparm, it runs merrily along then stops dead
> at nothing I
> > > can
> > > > discern.
> > >
> > > ah ha! smb.conf needs to be a bytestream file. and editor? she
> > > don't
> > > play that game :-) if vi is the best you got, then stick
> > with. qedit
> > > does
> > > bytestream quite nicely, btw. - d
> > >
> > > --
> > > Donna Garverick Sr. System Programmer
> > > 925-210-6631 [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > > >>>MY opinions, not Longs Drug Stores'<<<
> >
>
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