Setting a default view text mode

To better support parallel development in mixed environments, a text mode setting is provided for views that controls how line terminators are handled when text files are presented to applications.

View text modes are explained in Configuring text modes for views.

An MBean attribute value, ccrcVobLineTerminator, provides a way for the CM Server administrator to specify the default text mode for Web views created by Rational® ClearCase® remote clients using that server. For more information about setting MBean attribute values, see Modifying configuration defaults.

Table 1 lists the allowable values for this parameter and their effect on the default view text mode for clients on different platform types.

Table 1. Value of ccrcVobLineTerminator and resulting view text mode
Value of ccrcVobLineTerminator attribute	Rational ClearCase Remote Client platform type	Default view text mode
LF	the UNIX system or Linux	Transparent
LF	Windows	Insert CR
CR-LF	the UNIX system or Linux	Strip CR
CR-LF	Windows	Transparent

If this parameter is not set, the default view text mode is unspecified. Users can override the default when creating views.

The Rational ClearCase registry includes a site-wide property named "view_interop_text_mode" that establishes the default view text mode for the native Rational ClearCase GUI. The value of this property can be used as a guide for setting ccrcVobLineTerminator, so that Rational ClearCase Remote Clients on Windows platforms use the same view text mode defaults as Rational ClearCase native clients.