[clue-tech] Seeing Linux files on Windows

[Dave Price]

Text files may appear to be missing a carriage-return (hex 0D) -
making wordwrap funny, but the 'extra' carriage-return (MS-DOS uses
carriage-return 0x0D and line-feed 0x0A) where unix uses only 0xOA
linefeeds) seems to cause more cunfusion

On the Unix side you can get rid of the little guys with a perl 1-liner

#! /bin/bash
/usr/bin/perl -i -p -e 's/\r//g' $1

(Many distros include tools called unix2dos and dos2unix to do this in
both directions.

Otherwise -

CSV (comma separated value) lets you get text and numbers into
spreadsheets and databases.
OpenOffice can save in MS-Office compatible formats
Many unix apps can create Acrobat PDF's that Acrobat reader for
windows can read.

As far as seeing the files...
Linux can write MSDOS/FAT floppies (gasp)
ISO 9660 CDROM's are cross-platform by design.
USB Keychain drives are typically Windows fat32 compatible, and linux
is happy to write to them.
On the network SAMBA lets you share your linux folders with windows
and Macs, and of course, there is always email

hope that helps

aloha,
dave


On 3/14/06, Kevin Cullis <kevincu at viawest.net> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I know that MacOpener and MacDrive will allow Windows users to see
> Mac files on the various media, is there something for Linux files
> that is needed for Windows?
>
> Kevin
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aloha,
dave
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