Hmmmmmm...

I have tried running smbclnt both online and in batch, and examined the
redirected and saved output. It all looks very respectable - no strange
characters at all. Maybe it was an earlier version of Samba/iX (this one
is Version 1.9.16p9).

So perhaps the problem (at least from Samba client) has disappeared.

Sorry for the noise.

Neil Harvey


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> Subject:      Re: FW: Spoolfiles & BAD VARIABLE BLOCK STRUCTURE
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> Hi, Neil --
>
> > The few BAD VARIABLE BLOCK spoolfiles that we've encountered were
> > caused by the output from Samba/iX client running in batch.
> > The STDLIST could not be viewed, copied, texted etc.
> > We "solved" this by redirecting the output to a temp throwaway file.
> > So, it definitely seems to have something to do with spurious ASCII
> > characters above 127.
>
> Rather than throwing away the temp file, could you keep it and scan
> it,
> to verify that there really are chars above 127? I wonder if it is
> really
> chars BELOW 32 -- for instance, an explicit linefeed (newline in C).
>
> --Glenn Cole
>   Software al dente, Inc.
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