[clue-tech] Seeing Linux files on Windows

[Dave Price]

Yes,

If you are dual booting, the 'least common denominator' for a shared
data partition seems to be FAT32 in practice.

aloha,
dave

On 3/14/06, Jack Parker <jack.parker4 at verizon.net> wrote:
> I'll add slightly to this.
>
> I have trouble from Linux seeing an NTFS disk (which is a real bummer since
> I formatted the Widnows partitions to NTFS).
> I used to be able to mount c: and interchange (from the linux side).
>
> For CRLF issues I prefer awk 'BEGIN {RS=\r\n} {print}' doze.file > unix.file
> To each his own.
>
> I am currently using a dinky NAS as my medium for file interchange.  Both
> systems can see it just fine.  It also enforces some discipline - everything
> that moves between the two is stored on that device.
>
> j.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:clue-tech-bounces at cluedenver.org]On Behalf Of Dave Price
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 7:07 PM
> To: CLUE tech
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Seeing Linux files on Windows
>
>
> 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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> dave
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dave
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