On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 09:28:33 -0800, >Civileme wrote:
>http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/Explore2fs.htm
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>And be sure to read the FAQ and related stuff. You do not
>have to copy the directory to a FAT32 partition to be able to
>read it from WIN. I do think that it is singularly dangerous
>to write anything from win to linux, even with this tool, but
>reading should be (comparatively) safe.
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Sun, 9 Jul 2000 17:42:07
Oh my,..Is this really bad to do, Civileme? I have been stuffing file
after file up into linux for several months..Without any tools , just
straight from a file....I thought that win would not be acceptable to
this, but Linux could handle it ok?
I have not noticed anything that seems like a problem that I
can attribute to this after many megs...with the possible exception of
some tar.gz files from the internet,(winmodem) are no longer zipped
so zxvf will error not a" g zipped file" ... I can untar them with xvf
and they are ok.
Your words "singularly dangerous" makes me think I may be
"unwittingly" staggering toward the abyss? don't the floppy's write to
Linux from vfat without problem? why would this be different?
The above seems like a lot of questions, but really it's just
one "should I cease this practice?"<grin>.
Thanks
Olly P
Biloxi
Mississippi
