Hello,
The directories are being copied properly. We know that in DOS both
line feed and carriage return is used (ASCII 13,10) for terminating a
line. But this is not the case with Linux or other Unix platforms, which
uses a single terminating character.
LINUX TO DOS:
So, after transferring text files from Linux to Dos, if you open the
file in Notepad you see that the whole file will be in a single line. In
order to rectify this open the files in the DOS editor EDIT and save the
file. Now if you open the file in notepad, you observe that is quite
normal.
DOS TO LINUX:
After transferring text files from Dos to Linux, when you open the
file in VI editor, you observe that every line is terminated with a ^M
character. So,go to command line mode, search and replace the ^M
character with a Blank. But the problem here is typing the ^M character
for searching, because ^M is equivalent to pressing Enter key.
Therefore, before typing the ^M character, type the ^V character and you
get a ^ character, and now you can press ^M character which is readily
accepted.
RAJESH R A
VI SEM, R.V. COLLEGE OF ENGG
BANGALORE
>>> "Mani Murugesan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/27/99 11:15PM >>>
Hello,
Is there any quick way to move entire directory-trees (along with
their
files) between dos and linux? I tried sz, rz etc but I could not copy
the
directories. I tried to do this using SAMBA from within Windoze.
However
then the files are not stripped of their '\r' (Carraige returns) before
the
'\n' (Line feed). I am presently developing C programs which are
portable
across linux and dos. Finally I wrote a trivial C program to do the
conversion. Is there any automatic way to do this since I have to move
the
directory between both the platforms often?
Mani. M
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