-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver L. Plaine Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, July 10, 2000 12:01 AM
Subject: [expert] writing from win to linux
>On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 09:28:33 -0800, >Civileme wrote:
>
>>http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/Explore2fs.htm
>>
>>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.
>==========
>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
>
>
Using Explore2fs to write I am thinking is a tad dangerous to
partitions, expecially from w95. OTOH, if you are logged into
linux and read or cp or even dd files from win to linux, that
should be relatively safe.
It isn't the exchange of files, just the tool, and then mostly
for win9x.
Civileme
