Receiver File/FTP, SFTP, binary, endSeparator for CRLF ?

We are planning an interface using the Receiver File/FTP Adapter, using SFTP in binary mode.
The SAP PI runs on Unix, the other applications runs on Windows.
Can NameA.endSeparator be used to ensure that every line in this file ends on CRLF?
(As you know, Windows has the habit of ending lines in text files with CRLF - carriagereturn-linefeed, whereas Unix uses a singe LF - linefeed, also known as newline or nl).

Yes it can be done with '0x0D''0x0A' value which represents the CR and LF respectively...
which has been implemented succesfully in our interface...
HTH
Rajesh

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