[clue-tech] Seeing Linux files on Windows

[David L. Willson]

EDIT and Wordpad / Write can correctly read Unix-style text.  Notepad is retarded.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:07:16 -0700, Dave Price wrote
> 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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David L. Willson
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