[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Situation:
> I get a download of a .tar file into my WIN95 environment, because that's
> running okay, and want to take it onto the other machine running RH5.2,
> etc.
>
> What package will allow me to transport the >2MB file(s)?
>
Well you can just mount the windows 95 drive, I know in a dual boot situation
I can do
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /c but I am not sure over a network how it exactly
works. Do a man mount.
>
> I have pkzip, WinZip, etc.
> Will they run under Linux to allow me to rejoin the file(s) that have had
> to be split to go on 1.4MB disks?
>
There is zip and unzip installed in Redhat (or it's on the CD if it's not
Installed) and so that might work. Try man unzip or man zip.
>
> Is there also a program that will run in both Win and Linux to do this
> task?
>
> Is there a common format for text files?
> eg can files be taken over in .rtf and/or .doc as well as (I assume) .txt?
>
It really depends on what you are looking at the text files through, just like
it does in windows, you can look at .txt in Notepad, but not .doc files. The
same holds true for linux. There are several editors installed (or on the
Redhat CD). Once you get the files installed try the editors that you can
open through the KDE or Gnome system menus, then try to open your files. You
will be able to open .txt and .rtf files in just about anything, but .doc
files are a little more complicated. What you should do is look at Corel
WordPerfect 8 for Linux or StarOffice to read MS Word documents.
Michael
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter Ellis
> Canberra
> Capital city of Australia
