I have done so at times. What happens, is Windows converts some of
the dots in filenames to underlines. Apparently RPM doesn't care.
But you have to tell RPM the name the file actually has on your system.
I.E., if it has underlines rather than dots, then when you invoke RPM,
use the underlines. The other solution is to rename the file.
Windows seems to tolerate filenames with more than one dot, it just
doesn't save them that way off the Internet. Or cp the file to your
Linux system and rename it back to what it was sent as, but I don't
think this is worth the trouble.
--doug
At 02:05 07/29/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>This is probably a silly question. When downloading linux/unix files (i.e.
>a .tar.gz or .rpm files) from the internet, is it safe to save them in a
>Win95 directory? Is there anything I should do to protect/preserve file
>attributes/permissions?
>
>I've got to do this on my home machine as I've got a Winmodem (I know, time
>to get a real modem) and I'd like to confirm that I can update my Mandrake
>distro safely.
>
>Any help/guidance would be appreciated.
>
>
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