Oh, and on another note, I find "inline posting" very annoying. I don't
want to dig through an entire message just to decipher what is new text,
and what is not.
Justin
Scott wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:36:43PM -0500, Yvette Davis wrote:
> > Okay.. now I'm confused. I write to my Windows partition all the time
> > from Linux. I use Open Office in Linux to write and article and save it
> > to my file system on the Windows side, or my husband edits a photo in
> > Gimp, and saves it to his Windows side folder for finished photos.
> >
> > Or.. is that not what is meant by writing to the partition? (still
> > really new, and don't know all the terminology yet.)
>
> There are different ways of doing this. For example, if you are dual
> booting, that is, running Linux and Windows on the same machine, once
> you have booted into Linux, writing to a Windows NTFS partition might be
> problematic. (I haven't followed this conversation too closely, but it
> seems as if that's what's being discussed.)
>
> However, writing over a network is a different thing, In that case, you
> are using Samba, a program designed to allow to MS and Unix or Unix like
> systems to see each other. In that case, it's quite straightforward,
> save for various exceptions.
>
> If I might make a suggestion, although few people on this list do it,
> it's far easier to follow threads if you use inline posting, rather than
> posting at the top of the message. That is, answer paragraph A below
> paragraph A, paragraph B below paragraph B. It also gives you a far
> better chance of having the more experienced Linux folks read your
> post--many of the busier ones will simply see that it's top posted, and
> feel if you don't have the time to make your post readable to them, they
> don't have the time to give you an answer.
>
> Note that I'm only daring to suggest this because I am giving you an
> answer to your question.
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
> PGP keyID EB3467D6
> ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
>
> Cordelia: Oxford. Whoopee. Four years in teabag central.
> Sounds thrilling. And M.I.T. is a clearasil ad with housing, and Yale
> is a dumping ground for those who didn't get into Harvard.
> Willow: I got into Harvard.
>
>
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